McLean, VA (July 7, 2025) - More law enforcement officers are assaulted and injured responding to domestic disturbance calls than any other circumstance. And many of those calls have resulted in deadly encounters for the officers involved. Oxnard, California Police Officer John Adair was shot and killed on October 7, 1980, while trying to protect a woman from her enraged husband. Officer Adair’s wife was with her husband that night as a civilian ride-along. She witnessed the deadly encounter from the seat in her husband’s squad car. Winfield, Kansas Police Officer John Fulton tried to protect a woman who was fighting with her estranged husband. But suddenly, it was two against one as the wife grabbed the officer’s gun and gave it to her husband, who then shot and killed Officer Fulton. The year was 1892. And on May 9, 1993, Riverside County, California Deputy Kent Hintergardt was responding to a call from a woman who believed her female neighbor had been killed by a male friend. When the suspect exited the building, Deputy Hintergardt began questioning him. Suddenly the man pulled out a gun and fired a single shot at point-blank range, killing the 33-year-old officer. Kent was called one of the best deputies in the department’s history. Kent’s surviving spouse, Linda, became the national president of C.O.P.S. (Concerns of Police Survivors), an organization supporting the families of fallen officers. Listen to the podcast to learn more.
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