Joe Alan Prevatt

Suicide

Sergeants Kevin Mueller and James Hooper were hoping to question a suspected gunman in a recent robbery at King's Produce Store. When they arrived Joe Prevatt was standing in the doorway of his house. He refused to come out. Mueller and Prevatt got into a struggle. Prevatt pulled a handgun and started to fire at Mueller who fired back. As Mueller fired at and retreated he was unaware that the Prevatt had fallen to the floor. Prevatt received a bullet injury to the head. A preliminary autopsy determined that the fatal slug was not the same caliber as Mueller's service pistol and that Prevatt likely killed himself.