03-20-2016, 11:56 AM
South Carolina
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Officer Allen Lee Jacobs, 28 (above left), was fatally shot when Greenville cops tried to arrest the suspect at a house in the Nicholtown Community on Friday afternoon.
The Greenville officers had been trying to speak with the suspect, 17-year-old Deontea Perry Marckey (above right), when the suspect fled. Jacobs rounded a corner and was hit by multiple gunshots and passed away at Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Jacobs was a decorated Iraq war veteran, a father of two and his wife is pregnant, with the third child due in July, the department said in a somber remembrance. He'd been with the department for nearly four years. RIP.
The suspect, identified by police as 17-year-old Deontea Perry Mackey, reportedly called his mother moments before he shot himself to death after he was surrounded by cops. (Initially police said Jacobs was serving a warrant when he was shot, but they walked that back. Jacobs was wearing a body cam, but police say it may not have been turned on or it may have been broken when he was shot.)
Jacobs, the first cop killed in the line of duty in Greenville since 1996, was also struck by a car during a 2014 incident. Darell Johnson ran into Jacobs, breaking the officer's leg, after the cops told him to turn down the music in his car, according to Greenville Online.
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Officer Allen Lee Jacobs, 28 (above left), was fatally shot when Greenville cops tried to arrest the suspect at a house in the Nicholtown Community on Friday afternoon.
The Greenville officers had been trying to speak with the suspect, 17-year-old Deontea Perry Marckey (above right), when the suspect fled. Jacobs rounded a corner and was hit by multiple gunshots and passed away at Greenville Memorial Hospital.
Jacobs was a decorated Iraq war veteran, a father of two and his wife is pregnant, with the third child due in July, the department said in a somber remembrance. He'd been with the department for nearly four years. RIP.
The suspect, identified by police as 17-year-old Deontea Perry Mackey, reportedly called his mother moments before he shot himself to death after he was surrounded by cops. (Initially police said Jacobs was serving a warrant when he was shot, but they walked that back. Jacobs was wearing a body cam, but police say it may not have been turned on or it may have been broken when he was shot.)
Jacobs, the first cop killed in the line of duty in Greenville since 1996, was also struck by a car during a 2014 incident. Darell Johnson ran into Jacobs, breaking the officer's leg, after the cops told him to turn down the music in his car, according to Greenville Online.
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