A Knox County Sheriff’s Office Reserve Officer was killed in a plane crash Saturday morning in South Carolina.  Thirty year old Lance J. Davis and another man were killed when their single engine Cessna crashed into Lake Russell in Abbeville County, South Carolina.

Davis had been a Reserve Officer with the Sheriff’s Office for a year working special events and visiting inmates on the weekends at the jail.  He was a graduate of South Doyle High School and the University of Tennessee and worked as a free-lance photographer.  Sheriff Jimmy “J.J.” Jones said, “Our deepest sympathies go to the family. Lance was a fine young man and an asset to our Reserve Unit.   He will be sadly missed.”

Davis and Jimmy Cash of Maryville were on their way to Georgia at the time of the crash.