A little more than three years later, a Montgomery County prisoner named William Morva was taken to the local hospital after complaining of leg pain. After asking to use the bathroom, he brutally attacked the MCSO deputy who was with him, then, stealing the deputy's Glock, murdered a hospital security guard, Derrick McFarland, who bravely came to help before running from the hospital.
The next morning, August 21, 2006, like almost every law enforcement officer in the area, Eric Sutphin was out looking for Morva. Riding his police bicycle up the Huckleberry Trail, a paved route of about seven miles connecting the northern part of Christiansburg to downtown Blacksburg, he was flagged down by two women who pointed towards a bridge where they had seen a scruffy-looking man hunkered down several minutes earlier. Nobody knows what exactly happened next, but a few minutes later Eric Sutphin was gunned down at the side of the trail. Morva ran of into the bushes and was finally caught a few hours later by members of the Blacksburg PD SWAT team.
Eric Sutphin left behind a wife and twin daughters. As of this time, Morva is still awaiting trial.
Rest in Peace, my friend.
http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=18452
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