Detective Sergeant Glenn M. Sturgill, 30, of the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office in Ohio, was shot and killed on August 2, 1982, while attempting to arrest three suspects in an armed robbery. Sturgill had observed the men attempting to rob a woman at gunpoint on Claremont Avenue and pursued one into a cornfield behind a McDonald’s. While taking that suspect into custody, another suspect hiding behind a trash dumpster ambushed him and shot him in the right-lower chest; the bullet struck his heart and he died instantly.

Within eight hours all three suspects, aged 25, 21 and 17, were located and taken into custody. The three were tried and convicted of murder and robbery. The 21-year-old shooter received a life sentence; his accomplice received a life sentence for manslaughter and robbery; the juvenile was charged with aiding and abetting robbery. Sturgill had served six years with the Sheriff’s Department and left a wife, Becky, and two children. The county dedicated the Command Center at the fairgrounds and named the Justice Complex driveway Sturgill Drive in his memory.

If anyone has information about Sturgill’s final call or remembers the events on August 2, 1982, please share what is known.