2026 SPECIAL SESSION I
ENROLLED
HOUSE RESOLUTION NO. 2064
Commending Kenny B. Epling.
Agreed to by the House of Delegates, June 22, 2026
WHEREAS, Kenny B. Epling, an esteemed law-enforcement officer and major with the Hanover County Sheriff's Department, retires on June 30, 2026; and
WHEREAS, prior to his law-enforcement career, Kenny Epling served for seven years with the West Virginia Army National Guard and for two years as a public school teacher; and
WHEREAS, Kenny Epling embarked upon his law-enforcement career in September 1992 as a member of the Hanover County Sheriff's Office (HCSO); and
WHEREAS, after graduating from the police academy, Kenny Epling served with the patrol division as a patrol deputy, during which time he was a member of the crash reconstruction team, a field training officer, a background investigator, a designated shift supervisor, and an acting sergeant; and
WHEREAS, Kenny Epling was promoted to sergeant in July 1997 and transferred to the Investigative Division, overseeing the vice and narcotics unit until achieving the rank of lieutenant in July 2002; and
WHEREAS, in October that same year, Kenny Epling was assigned as coordinator of the DC Beltway Sniper Task Force at the Federal Bureau of Investigations headquarters in Richmond, where he led hundreds of federal, state, and local officers and coordinated with several departments and task forces in Northern Virginia and Maryland to successfully apprehend John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo; and