Wayne Martin Marty Bryant Jr. was a 23-year-old deputy with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office who was killed in the line of duty on March 18, 1988. Assigned to patrol the Little Rock area, he and a partner responded to a disturbance call in Pulaski County. As they approached the residence, the suspect opened fire and ambushed the deputies.

Bryant was mortally wounded by gunfire but returned fire during the exchange; his shots fatally wounded the assailant at the scene. The investigative record lists the cause of death as gunfire and notes no arrests or subsequent criminal proceedings because the shooter died on scene. Family, classmates, and colleagues remember Bryant as a dedicated officer and a man of faith whose name is now on the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office memorial.

Did anyone who served with him or lived in that neighborhood in 1988 have memories to share?