HJR542 Summary

• Commends Conservation Officer Joel Hendron as a nominee for the 2010 Alabama Legislative Medal of Honor for Law Enforcement, the state's highest law enforcement award for extraordinary courage.

• Recognizes Hendron's actions on March 10, 2009, when he participated in a high-speed pursuit and exchanged gunfire with a gunman who committed the single deadliest crime in Alabama's recorded history, murdering 10 victims and injuring 6 others in Geneva and Coffee Counties.

• Credits Hendron and his fellow officers' courageous and selfless actions during the engagement with likely saving the lives of several additional victims, despite being unable to prevent the gunman's suicide.

• Directs that Hendron receive a copy of this resolution as a token of the legislature's admiration and esteem.

• Adopted by the House on March 9, 2010, and by the Senate on March 23, 2010.