Hero of the Day

Benjamin Hawkins "Benny" Berry

Travis County Sheriff Office

End of Watch:  February 1, 1967

Oakwood Cemetery

Austin, Travis County, Texas

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 Deputy Berry was shot and killed as he and Deputy Walter Eckert attempted to serve a felony warrant on a man for writing bad checks.  Deputy Berry was struck in the chest by a M-1 Carbine.   Deputy Berry was survived by his son and by his wife, a dispatcher at the Travis County Sheriff's Office. It was his wife who received the first call of "Officer Down."