Frederick Gaston III Photo of Byrd unavailable at this time
Two former law enforcement officers who had served in Moss Point and Pascagoula share a day that has its yearly anniversary in late March.
Two former law enforcement officers who had served in Moss Point and Pascagoula share a day that has its yearly anniversary in late March.
Frederick Gaston III., who was a deputy with the Jackson County Sheriff's Department when he was shot to death in 2008, was born March 27, 1959. He was 49 years old.
On that same date Patrolman Micheal Byrd, a member of the Pascagoula Police Department, lost his life in a motorcycle accident on Chicot Road in 2006. At the time of Byrd's death, Gaston was with the Gulfport Police Department.
Gaston had served with the Moss Point Police Department since 2007, and was interim police chief from January to mid-summer 2008.
Gaston had only recently become a deputy for the county agency led by Byrd's father, Sheriff Mike Byrd. Gaston was on his way to military training in Virginia when he was killed during a robbery in Gastonia, N.C., on Aug. 2, 2008.
Byrd was on his way to Singing River Hospital to see a newborn nephew when he swerved to avoid a collision with a vehicle and was thrown off his motorcycle, then tragically run over by a truck.
The familes of the two men still pay homage to their lives on their shared day -- March 27 -- as well as the differing days of birth.
Byrd would have turned 30 years old this coming April 11. He was born in 1979.
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