Last Remaining Hallsville Officer Resigned

HALLSVILLE — The only Hallsville police officer who had not been fired Wednesday resigned Wednesday night in the middle of his shift, police chief Lukas Reynolds said. Reynolds said Earl Dykes, the department’s lone patrol officer after administrators terminated the former chief and two police officers, resigned at around 10:00.

Hallsville Mayor Jerri Medrano terminated former chief Greg Scott, Sgt. Mack Fuller and patrol officer T.C. Livingston Wednesday morning without severance pay. City administrators changed the locks Wednesday at Hallsville’s police station after the police chief and officers were fired. The city’s new police chief, Lukas Reynolds, was there to watch the fired officers clean out their desks and patrol cars and see them out the door.

“This decision was taken as a result of routine evaluation of personnel employed by the city at the Hallsville Police Department,” Medrano said. “During this evaluation, it became apparent to the city that the affected officers were not performing their official duties to the standards necessary for employees of the city. Their continued employment by the Hallsville Police Department was not in the best interest of the citizens of Hallsville.”

The Harrison County Sheriff’s Office will continue to provide public safety assistance, along with the Texas Department of Public Safety to the Hallsville Police Department.