On February 20, 2003, Alexandria, Louisiana Patrolman Jeremy Jay Carruth, 29, was killed while serving on the Alexandria Police Department’s Special Response Team. The team was executing an operation on Wise Street to arrest a suspect wanted for an ambush on an officer the previous day. As officers arrived they were met with heavy gunfire that lasted over twenty minutes.

Carruth was fatally wounded in the firefight and pronounced dead at a local hospital. His partner, Patrolman First Class David Ezernack, was also mortally wounded and died about five hours later; three other officers were injured. The suspect, described as a convicted felon on parole, was killed by return fire at the scene.

Carruth was a veteran of the Louisiana National Guard’s 239th Military Police Company and had served with the Alexandria Police Department for nearly three years. He left behind two young daughters, his parents, and three sisters. Does anyone have personal memories of Carruth or information about the operation on Wise Street?