Sheriff John Hunt fought back tears while saying goodbye to his longtime friend, William Petry, one of three law enforcement officers killed in an ambush while serving a warrant in eastern Kentucky last week.
The small Appalachian county that Hunt is in charge of protecting is reeling from the deaths of the officers, who walked into a hail of bullets from a gunman holed up in his home Thursday evening. Petry, a veteran officer who joined the Floyd County sheriff’s office after retiring from the state police a few years ago, was honored Tuesday during an emotional funeral service.
