Sheriff Calls Deputy Tate His Best

     Grundy County Sheriff Brent Myers says today was difficult for him and the rest of his department reporting for work.

Yesterday, 200 officers from the Tri-State area paid respects to Deputy Shane Tate, killed early Thursday morning serving a warrant on Kermit Bryson.

    We found reserve deputy Daniel Wockason, who turned all questions to Sheriff Myers.

    He was with fellow Grundy deputy Shane Tate, early Thursday morning when Kermit Brysin killed him inside this trailer.

    This afternoon, Wockason turned all questions to sheriff Brent Myers. His neighbor says he remains devastated.

    Renee Fults said, "It's been very tough for all of us. It's going to take a long time for this community to move forward. Daniel, next

door he's taking it really hard because he was there."

    Sheriff Brent Myers said, "Everybody here, Shane was like their family. And you know it was hard for me this morning, it was hard for everybody here just to show up, you just wanted to stay home, you didn't even want to show up."

    But Sheriff Myers says one day after his widely attended funeral, this tiny department draws strength from Tate. The sheriff called

him the BEST deputy.

   "Shane is going to help us get through today and he's going to help us get through every day. You never had to tell Shane what to do, he always took it upon himself to do it. You'd come in the next morning and it would be done. He was just that type of person. He loved and cared everybody he had met," Sheriff Myers said.

    Deputies and detectives placed stickers on their vehicles in his memory.

    They want more time to grieve before facing exactly what happened inside this trailer.

    "Now is not the time for us to discuss it or sit and think about it. We've got to get through these next couple of days, then we'll talk about things that maybe we can do differently," Sheriff Myers said.