Dustin Shawn Duncan, Deputy Sheriff
Latimer County Sheriff’s Office
Just before 6 a.m. on Monday, February 4, 2008, 28-year old Deputy Sheriff Duncan was driving east on State Highway 270 near Wister in Le Flore County when his patrol car went left of center and struck a pick up driven by 29-year old Brannon Oden of Cedarville, Ark. Deputy Duncan was pronounced dead at the scene and was pinned in his patrol car for about two hours. Oden was transported to a hospital, treated and released that day. Deputy Duncan had just completed a twelve hour shift and was driving to his home in Wister when the accident occurred. Deputy Duncan had only been with the Latimer County Sheriff’s Office three months having joined the previous October but had been a law enforcement officer for seven years prior serving with the Wister Police Department and the Le Flore County Sheriff’s Office prior to becoming a Latimer County Deputy. Deputy Duncan was engaged to be married when he died.