Sergeant William Rollin Brand, 39, was shot and killed during his drive home in the early morning hours of February 8, 2005. Brand, an eight-year veteran of the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office assigned to the Monroe County Correctional Center, was driving south on State Road 37 near Zikes Road when a vehicle pulled alongside his pickup and two shots from an AR-15 rifle were fired. One bullet struck him in the back of the head; his truck then left the road and struck a limestone embankment.

Investigators identified a 25-year-old former inmate, Benjamin Steinberg, as the suspect and say the shooting was an act of retaliation connected to the correctional facility. Steinberg was located and arrested in New Albany the next day on an unrelated charge. Brand was survived by his wife and a three-year-old child.

If anyone knew Sergeant Brand, his routines, or saw a suspicious vehicle on State Road 37 near Zikes Road on February 8, 2005, please share what you remember.