Deputy Sheriff Scott Jeffrey Ward, 47, was killed while on duty after responding to a domestic disturbance in Silverhill, Alabama on November 23, 2012. Ward, a 15-year veteran of the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office who previously served with the Prichard Police Department and the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve, and two fellow deputies were speaking with a disturbed man on the man’s front porch when the man produced a handgun and opened fire.

Ward and another deputy were struck despite wearing protective vests and were flown to the University of South Alabama Medical Center with critical injuries. The third deputy returned fire and killed the shooter at the scene. Deputy Ward later died of his wounds; he is survived by his wife and was mourned by colleagues and the Coast Guard community.

If anyone has information about that response or remembers events on Mallard Lane that day, please share what you know.