Deputy Kent Alan Hintergardt

Medal of Honor - Deputy Kent Alan Hintergardt
Kent Hintergardt EOW May 9 1993ID Number 2164

December 14, 1959 to May 9, 1993

Deputy Kent Hintergardt was employed with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office for two years. He was hired as a lateral Deputy Sheriff, coming from Los Angeles Sheriff’s Office on February 7, 1991, and assigned to Lake Elsinore Station. He was transferred to Southwest Station on July 11, 1991.

While working patrol at the Southwest Station, he was called to a disturbance call between a boyfriend and girlfriend. Unknown to Deputy Hintergardt, the girlfriend had already been killed inside the apartment.

Medal of HonorDeputy Hintergardt made contact with the boyfriend in the parking lot. An altercation ensued, and Deputy Hintergardt was shot.

Deputy Hintergardt was survived by his wife and daughter. He and his wife were expecting their second child at the time of his death.