 Trade it and upgrade it now at Appalachian Wireless and receive up to $700 off when you trade your old eligible device in and upgrade to a new iPhone 14 Pro Max or Samsung S23 Ultra on an unlimited Appalachian advantage plan because we are you. We are Appalachian Wireless. March 13th marks five years since the death of Pikeville police officer Scotty Hamilton. To those who knew Hamilton, they would call him a friend and a hero and say that his legacy will live on. On the anniversary of his death, Pikeville PD offered their thoughts and condolences of their fallen comrade. As a department and as a community and as personally, one of my main goals as a PIO when I took the promotion was to make sure that Scotty's memory lived on. In any interview I could do or anything I could do with the media, I want to make sure that happened and that that's the goal of of everyone in this department and the city itself. We don't want him his sacrifice to ever be forgotten. The importance of remembering Hamilton and his sacrifice is something Pikeville PD values greatly. Every year they visit Hamilton's gravesite with his family as a show of respect. Scotty was a great officer and a great friend and and just all around great guy to be around. He was fun to be around. He made the shift go by faster. He did things that were very professional and he made sure Scotty was true public servant and that's he took that so serious. His dream was to be a police officer and he that's what he a lot of people never get to live their dream out and he did and he gave his life for that for this career and we will make sure the family knows that we're never going to forget that sacrifice. You never come to work thinking you're going to you're going to lose your free end or lose a co-worker or anything and that day we did and it seems like like it seems like it's yesterday sometimes when we sit to think about it but today we're going to we're going to visit his gravesite with his family and we're going to talk about Scotty and tell stories about Scotty and then keep that memory alive and and and make sure his family knows that that we missing. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Nick Collum.