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Arrest Made in Shots Fired/Menacing Complaint - 03/13/24

On March 12, 2024 at 8:19 p.m. officers from the Ashland Police Department received a complaint of a menacing involving a handgun. This crime was reported to have occurred in the area of Faith Street and Ashland Street.

The victim told officers that a known suspect had fired two rounds at him from a handgun. Officers attempted to locate the suspect at the time but were unsuccessful.

Members of the department’s Criminal Investigation Division took over the case on March 13, 2014 and located the suspect at his residence on HWY 66 near Emigrant Lake. The suspect was taken into custody without further incident and lodged at the Jackson County Jail on charges of Unlawful Use of a Weapon and Menacing. 

Two handguns were recovered at the time of arrest. Officers were not able to determine where the shots fired landed. No injuries or damaged property has been reported. 

The suspect is identified as Kyle Anthony Smith, 24 years old. 

 

line of duty death from 1919 to be honored - 03/04/24

The Ashland Police Department recently learned of a previously unknown line of duty death that occurred on March 3, 1919. Officer George Martin Lowe, age 54, was struck and killed by a train while on foot patrol in the railroad district.

This incident was brought to the department’s attention by the Officer Collin Rose Memorial Foundation, a Michigan based non-profit that works to honor officers who have fallen in the line of duty.

The Ashland Police Department requested that Officer Lowe’s name be added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial Wall in Washington DC, a request that has been approved. Officer Lowe’s name will be added during a ceremony in May of this year.

APD has also requested that his name be added to the state’s wall of honor in Salem (at the Department of Public Safety Standards and Training), and the county’s wall of honor at Singler Memorial Plaza in Medford (between the Jackson County Circuit Court and the Jackson County Jail).

The department is in the process of updating its badge as well. The bottom of the Ashland Police badge contains a panel with stars, one star for each officer who has died in the line of duty. A fourth star will be added for Officer Lowe, joining three other stars honoring Samuel Prescott and Victor Knott, both of whom died in the line of duty in 1931, and Malcus Williams, who died in the line of duty in 2018.