Lieutenant Eddie Mays suffered a fatal heart attack while arresting a man during a domestic call on West Crumb Avenue in Bernie at 4:53 p.m. He was transported to Mercy Hospital Stoddard in Dexter, Missouri. The subject was arrested and charged with domestic assault.

Lieutenant Mays was a United States Air Force veteran. He first served with the Bloomfield Police Department, then as a deputy for the Stoddard County Sheriff’s department from November 1998 to January 2005 and served with the Bernie Police Department from 2013. He is survived by his wife of thirty years, two children, and eight grandchildren.

Interred: Missouri State Veterans Cemetery, Bloomfield