Kirkwood Police Sergeant William King Biggs Jr., 50, of Gerald, Missouri is dead after suffering a gunshot wound in the line of duty on Thursday evening, February 7.

Born on June 30, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, Bill graduated from Webster Groves High School in St. Louis, class of 1975. Thereafter, Bill worked on a large family-owned ranch in North Park, Colorado for thirteen years. The family returned to St. Louis, where Bill attended the St. Louis Police Academy and became a Kirkwood Police officer. He was also an FBI National Academy graduate. Bill served his last ten of twenty-one years with the Kirkwood Police Department as a sergeant.

Survivors include Bill’s wife of 30 years, Cynthia Biggs, sons William Cody Biggs and Bo James Biggs, along with Bill’s mother, Patricia Loring Biggs, sisters, Kathryn Hoberg and Alyson Higginbotham, and brothers, Michael Biggs, Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Biggs and James Biggs.