JACKSON — Hundreds of people, including law officers from across Mississippi, attended a funeral Friday for a Jackson police officer who was killed while trying to capture an escaped inmate.
Detective Lawrence Taylor recalled teaching Glenn Agee at the Jackson Police Department Training Academy and said he wondered if he could”ve done more to prepare the officer.
Agee had been on the job two months when he was shot to death Aug. 6. He was 31.
The suspect, 24-year-old Latwan Dupree Smith, pleaded not guilty Monday to capital murder.
WAPT television reports that Hinds County Sheriff Malcolm McMillin said Agee, who used to be a jailer, long dreamed of becoming a police officer.
Jackson Police Chief Rebecca Coleman said Agee was a hero.
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