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State Trooper
Calvin Jenk
Died in the line of duty at the young age of 24 while serving to
protect us.
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01/07/07
Nashville, TN
By LUCAS L. JOHNSON II - The Associated
Press
The 24-year-old trooper pulled over two men and was trying to
get them out of the vehicle Saturday night when he was shot twice,
according to footage from the patrol car's video camera. At least
one bullet struck him in the head, said Mike Browning, a Department
of Safety spokesman. On Sunday, Alejandro Guana, 17, and Orlando
Garcia, 19, were arrested without incident at a hotel near downtown
Nashville, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jennifer
Johnson said. 'After interviewing the two men we feel confident
we have the two people in custody that murdered the state trooper,'
TBI director Mark Gwyn said. Hunters found Trooper Calvin Jenks'
body beside his patrol car near the intersection of two state highways,
Browning said. Authorities believed the suspects were carrying drugs
and drove toward Nashville after the shooting in Tipton County,
just north of Memphis, Browning said before Sunday's arrests. Jenks
smelled marijuana on the driver, Browning said. When Jenks asked
the man whether he had drugs in the car, the suspect eventually
admitted there were drugs in the center console, Browning said.
Jenks went back to the passenger and asked him whether he had drugs.
The man said he didn't, then opened fire, Browning said. Investigators
found what they believe is Jenks' flashlight in a garbage can at
a Wal-Mart in Brownsville, 13 miles east of the scene of the shooting.
Jenks, 24, had been a trooper for two years and transferred to the
Tipton area from Marshall County in 2005 to be closer to his new
wife, he said.
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