The Gill project, seen on Thursday, August 6, 2020, of Decker & Gill Court, a historic preservation and affordable housing development in Pasadena. (Photo by Sarah Reingewirtz, Los Angeles Daily ...

The Dallas County Sheriff's Department's first black deputy has died, the department announced Tuesday. Jesse Everett Gill was hired to the department by Sheriff Bill Decker on Jan. 16, 1954.

Gill graduated from Bishop College in 1951 and served in the Korean War from 1951 until 1953, according to a Dallas County Sheriff's news release. Former Dallas County Sheriff Bill Decker hired ...