Kenneth Dwin Fowler was a 59-year-old sergeant with the Lubbock Police Department who was killed in the line of duty on June 18, 1992. He and another officer had responded to a disturbance at an apartment complex and found the body of a mental health caseworker, James E. Haliburton Jr., who had been killed by his patient, James Kevin Voyles. While Sgt. Fowler knelt over Haliburton’s body to cover it, the suspect opened his apartment door and fired multiple shots, striking Fowler in the head and upper torso. Fowler was pronounced dead on arrival at the University Medical Center.

The suspect, James Kevin Voyles, was apprehended by the Lubbock SWAT Team several hours after the shooting and charged in the fatal shootings of both Haliburton and Sgt. Fowler. Sgt. Fowler had served 36 years with the department and is survived by his wife and two sons. His colleagues and community remember him as a dedicated officer and a positive influence.

Fowler or recall the department’s response to the 1992 killings?