Perry County highway renamed for fallen Tell City officer Heather Glenn
A stretch of State Road 237 near Perry County Memorial Hospital will bear Sgt. Heather J. Glenn’s name, marking the spot where she was shot in 2023.
Sergeant Heather J. Glenn will be honored on a stretch of State Road 237 near Perry County Memorial Hospital as Indiana renames the route the Sergeant Heather J. Glenn Memorial Highway. The designation ties Glenn’s name to the place in Tell City where she was shot and killed while trying to arrest a domestic violence suspect after officers responded to a disturbance at the hospital on July 3, 2023.
A dedication ceremony is planned for July 8, 2026, at City Hall Park in Tell City at 10 a.m. Central Time. House Concurrent Resolution 3 urged the Indiana Department of Transportation to approve the roadway naming and passed the Indiana Senate unanimously on Feb. 5, 2026. State Sen. Daryl Schmitt sponsored the resolution.
Glenn served 20 years with the Tell City Police Department. She was born June 9, 1976, in Owensboro, Kentucky, graduated from Tell City High School in 1994, earned a criminal justice degree from Vincennes University and completed the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. She served as the department’s Taser instructor, a field training officer and a mentor, and she followed her father’s footsteps into law enforcement.
Indiana Law Enforcement Memorial records list Glenn as 47 years old and the first line-of-duty death in Tell City Police Department history. They also list her as the fifth of seven Indiana line-of-duty deaths in 2023 and her burial at Greenwood Cemetery in Tell City.
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