Deputy Sheriff Donald Kenneth Bond, 35, was killed in Chattanooga, Tennessee in the pre-dawn hours of September 6, 2001. Bond, a two-year member of the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office, had responded to suspicious activity at a produce stand at 9200 East Brainerd Road after finishing a call around 1:30 a.m. While investigating, he was ambushed and shot nine times with an AK-47 rifle and died at the scene. His assailant removed the front panel of Bond’s protective vest and took his service weapon.

Dispatchers lost contact with Bond at 2:20 a.m., prompting a search that located his body at the stand. Tips from informants led investigators to Marlon Duane Kiser; officers observed him trying to discard the stolen gun and vest panel from his back porch the morning after the shooting. Kiser was arrested, tried, and convicted of first-degree premeditated murder. The jury sentenced him to death after he waived the presentation of mitigating evidence at sentencing.

Bond was survived by his wife, parents, a brother, and a sister. Does anyone have memories of Deputy Bond or information about the incident that hasn’t been shared publicly?