Law enforcement procession honors fallen Clark County deputy

Law enforcement officers across the region are honoring a fallen Clark County deputy at a funeral procession Thursday.

Deputy Summer Jenkins passed away in Dayton, and was being brought from there to Littleton & Rue Funeral Home in Springfield on Thursday afternoon. Details of her death were not disclosed, but it was not a line-of-duty death.

Jenkins started work at the Clark County Sheriff’s Office in September, but has worked in law enforcement in the Miami Valley for about five years, Lt. Kristopher Shultz said.

“The contact we had with her, she is an excellent individual; she came highly recommended. She’s done very well with us in the short time that we were privileged to work with her,” Shultz said. “And her reputation has preceded her based on the commentary from the other agencies and the other officers who worked with her prior to her coming here to Clark County.”

Shultz said Jenkins worked for Colerain Twp. and the Cedarville Police Department previously. Multiple Miami Valley law enforcement, fire and EMS agencies came together for the procession.

“There are multiple agencies from the Miami Valley area who has direct or indirect contact with her during her prior career prior to us, and as such they have a significant contingent of personnel that are coming to take care of her in this time ... and the family,” Shultz said. “This is just an indicator of the support that is found in the public safety community, whether it’s law enforcement, fire, EMS, we all come together in these kind of situations to take care of one another and to take care of our members who have passed.”

Shultz said the Jenkins family will “remain part of our public safety family in perpetuity.”