Macon County Sheriff's Deputy Killed

MACON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — More than 100 men and women in law enforcement paved the way as Sgt. William Cherry was returned home from the medical examiner’s office in Nashville to the Anderson and Son Funeral Home in Lafayette Saturday afternoon.

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Lafayette businesses offer tributes to Macon Co. sergeant killed in crash

LAFAYETTE, Tenn. (WKRN) — News of the sudden passing of a Macon County Sheriff’s Sergeant sent shockwaves through the Lafayette Community Saturday.

Sgt. William Cherry was killed in the overnight hours Saturday, when a wrong-way driver crashed into his patrol vehicle head-on. According to the preliminary report from the Tennessee Highway Patrol, A driver in a white Ford pickup truck crossed into the lane Cherry was in on State Route 10 in Macon County. Cherry was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other driver was flown to a nearby hospital.

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I heard the news from a deputy that was out taking a theft report from my neighbor across the road early Saturday morning. The deputy who took the report had known him for years and years and worked with him in Red Boiling Springs, and he was in tears while he was telling us.