Hundreds honor life of slain TBI Special Agent De’Greaun Frazier

CORDOVA, Tenn. — Family, friends and colleagues bid a final farewell Wednesday to a TBI agent who gave the ultimate sacrifice trying to get drugs off the streets of West Tennessee.

Countless loved ones and law enforcement gathered in Cordova to say goodbye to Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Special Agent De’Greaun Frazier.

The recording of Agent Frazier’s partner yelling over the radio played over the loud speaker — “The subject will be armed with a pistol … My partner has been shot … Shots fired.”

Agent De’Greaun Frazier became the first Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent killed in the line of duty, just six months after joining the force.

Wednesday morning, TBI Director Mark Gwyn expressed his support for the Frazier family.

“We’ll be weeping with you, and we’re never going to leave your side,” Gwyn said. “You are now a part of the family of blue, and it’s a loving family.”

Friends and fellow officers say Frazier was a people person who would do anything to keep his community safe.

“And for some reason that we do not know, God stepped in and said ‘Frazier, job well done,'” Officer Qadeer Smith, a friend of Frazier, said. “Mission complete.”

His pastor says working in law enforcement is a calling that the 35-year-old took seriously.

“Some for the special times with his family or a football game they enjoyed together, but now he will always be remembered for his sacrifice,” Life Church Memphis Pastor John Siebeling said.

Following the service, Frazier was led by officers with their blue lights on to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis where he was laid to rest.