Joe Alan Prevatt

How they died

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.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Joe Alan Prevatt, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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