Waymon Dee Allen, a 39-year-old white Special Agent with the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, was killed on March 15, 1987, during a drug raid in Winter Haven, Polk County, Florida. Officers were executing a search warrant at a rooming house suspected of illicit drug dealing when a fellow officer inadvertently discharged his weapon. The round fatally struck Allen.

The shooting was ruled accidental; investigators concluded the discharge was unintentional and no arrests or charges were made. Allen left a wife, a son, and his parents, and his death was reported as a significant loss to the Sheriff’s Office and the community he served.

Does anyone have memories of Allen’s service or information about that investigation that hasn’t been shared publicly?