19-05-2025
Retired VCSO lieutenant honored for injury in line of duty
Retired Vigo County Sheriff's Office Lt. Brent Hall has been recognized for injury in the line of duty while handling a dangerous call in which police were shot at.
Hall was presented the Order of The Blue Heart by The Wounded Blue organization.
Vigo County sheriff's deputies on April 11, 2020, investigated a call in which a West Terre Haute woman reported her husband might have been injured or committed suicide.
Deputies began searching for the man's vehicle and found it in a field at the base of a hill near West Illiana Drive and Crews Place.
The rear window of the SUV appeared to be shot out. Hall was examining the SUV when he came under fire from nearby trees and bushes. At least three bullets struck Hall's vehicle.
Deputies took cover and called for assistance as more shots were fired at them. Officers from the sheriff's department, city police and state police responded and tried to make contact with the gunman.
Eventually, police spotted the shooter concealed in brush while firing at officers. A reserve sheriff's deputy shot and killed the gunman, who was identified as 51-year-old Errol Bolin.
After investigation, the shooting was deemed justified by Vigo County Prosecutor Terry Modesitt, who said Bolin ambushed law enforcement officers.
As Hall was being fired upon, he was moving to a position of cover when he suffered a broken ankle.
Hall and other responders received the Medal of Valor for their actions. Hall, however, had not been recognized for suffering an injury during the incident.
Hall has since retired from the Vigo County Sheriff's Office. He now works as a fraud investigator with the First Financial Bank in Terre Haute, where the awards ceremony was conducted.
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