Monday, September 9, 2019

Murder of Deputy Sheriff Carnie Hopkins

On the night of September 9, 1984,54-year-old Livingston County Deputy Sherrif Carnie Hopkins was working. Around 11:20 p.m. he notified dispatch that he was checking on a hitchhiker on US 60  and Highway 137 about 3 miles East of Smithland, Kentucky. The intersection was also known as "The Monument". A few minutes later a dispatcher on the way to work found his body. A struggle had happened and he was somehow shot with his own gun. 


SOURCES:
Officer Down Memorial Page 

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