INCIDENT A 44-year-old male police officer drowns while attempting to rescue a citizen from a submerging vehicle in the Cumberland River. On the day of the incident, the victim and two other police officers responded to a call at 4:30 am of a person in a vehicle at the end of the boat ramp located inside Peeler Park threatening to drive into the river. The victim approached the driver’s side of the car, and another police officer approached the passenger side of the car still parked at the water’s edge. At some point during their conversation with the driver of […]