More than 1,000 people filled the auditorium at Joshua High School for a memorial service honoring a fallen Johnson County sheriff's deputy Wednesday.
Deputy Clifton Taylor was remembered most for his sense of humor and his heroism. Taylor was responding to a domestic violence call outside of Venus on Saturday when officials say was fatally shot by Wesley Davis, of Oklahoma.
Davis' family told Sheriff Bob Alford that Davis threatened to kill three people at that residence and others in Hurst.
"We may never know how many lives Deputy Taylor saved that day. Deputy Taylor's sacrifice, though, gave other deputies time to react and stop the assailant," Alford said during the service.
Davis was ultimately shot and killed by two other responding officers.
Taylor was buried in a private graveside ceremony. He would have celebrated his 32nd birthday one week from Wednesday.
