Retired Alabama Deputy Killed in Shooting Recalled Fondly

Retired Alabama Deputy Killed in Shooting Recalled Fondly
A group of girls wait for the start of a memorial, for the victims of the shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue, on Oct. 27, 2018. Gene J. Puskar/AP
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CAMDEN, ALA.—Madison “Skip” Nicholson retired from his job as a deputy with the Wilcox County Sheriff’s Department a couple years ago, but he never really left. He was still around the office many days, partly because he was serving as a constable and serving legal documents in the rural west Alabama county.

Nicholson, 78, was fatally wounded and another deputy was shot in a confrontation that left a suspect dead Wednesday afternoon in tiny Yellow Bluff, a town about 90 miles (about 144 kilometers) southwest of Montgomery. Nicholson died in the line of duty, state police said.