Myrtle Beach police gathered Saturday for patrol officer Jacob William Hancher, six years after he was killed in the line of duty.
The department's honor guard fired a three-volley salute, a rifle custom long used by the military and by law enforcement to mark a death. The public write-up of Saturday's gathering does not give a street corner for the volleys.
Hancher's end of watch was Saturday, Oct. 3, 2020. He was 23, eight months into the job, and wore badge 374. He was shot while he and other officers answered a domestic incident at an apartment in the 400 block of 14th Avenue South, at about 10 p.m. The department's memorial page lists the offender as deceased. He is survived by his mother, father, stepmother, brother, three sisters, and grandparents.
The agency built a fallen-officer memorial fountain in 2014, with pavers around it for officers, families, and neighbors. Neither Saturday's news account nor the memorial page says the salute was held at that fountain, so this report does not place it there.
