Kenneth Lee Wimberly Sr., a 32-year-old Gwinnett County Deputy Sheriff, was killed in Tucker, Georgia on September 22, 1998. Wimberly had moved into Hunter’s Pointe Apartments on Jimmy Carter Boulevard that day. Off-duty when residents alerted him to a man loudly preaching in an open field and claiming to be a deity, Wimberly intervened and initially persuaded the man to return to his apartment. The man came out again and a physical struggle followed; during the struggle the man seized Wimberly’s service weapon and fired, fatally wounding the deputy.

Responding units arrested the suspect at the scene. Wimberly left behind a wife and three children.