John Wesley Wright was a 25-year-old male reserve deputy sheriff serving with the Hawkins County Sheriff�s Office in Tennessee when his life ended abruptly on August 16, 1988, in Rogersville. That summer day, he was not on a routine patrol or doing administrative work; he was in the middle of a high-risk effort to help bring an escaped convict back into custody. During that operation, as deputies moved in to apprehend the fugitive, a fellow deputy�s weapon discharged, and Wright was accidentally
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