Deputy Kevin Tarsia

It has been 20 years since the 4th of July holiday was shattered by word that a Broome County Sheriff's Deputy had been brutally gunned down in a Kirkwood park.

The woman who helped killers David Sweat and Richard Matt escape the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora is up for parole.

A traveling memorial to fallen law enforcement officers of the Southern Tier is on display in Broome County for the next three weeks.

Broome County Sheriff’s Department officials and many local residents say they will never forget a tragic 4th of July 15 years ago when the first deputy to be killed in the line of duty in the county was gunned down in Kirkwood.