Line of Duty Death: Deputy Sheriff Brandon Shirley
Deputy Sheriff Brandon Shirley
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, Kentucky
End of Watch Thursday, August 5, 2021
BIO
Age 26
Tour 2 years
Badge Not available
INCIDENT DETAILS
Cause Gunfire
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender At large
Deputy Sheriff Brandon Shirley was shot and killed when he was ambushed while working a secondary employment assignment at 2618 Rockford Lane in Shively, Kentucky.
He was in uniform and sitting in a vehicle at about 2:30 am when a subject approached him and opened fire. Deputy Shirley was transported to University Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The subject who shot him fled the scene and remains at large.
Deputy Shirley had served with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office for two years.
Please contact the following agency to send condolences or to obtain funeral arrangements:
Sheriff John Aubrey
Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office
531 Court Place
6th Floo
Louisville, KY 40202
Phone: (502 ) 574-5400
