Police Officer Shot to Death at South Carolina Airport

A 26-year-old police officer was murdered Sunday at a South Carolina airport as he attempted to make a traffic stop.

According to WSBTV.com, Florence Regional Airport police officer Jackson Ryan Winkeler was making a traffic stop on airport property at around 6 a.m. local time when 37-year-old suspect James Edward Bell allegedly shot him to death.

Winkeler was the first law enforcement officer killed in the line of duty in the United States in 2020. Bell fled the scene and was captured in a car lot near Effingham by Florence County Sheriff’s deputies.