Today is Fallen Agents Day – 2025

A Day of Remembrance for the fallen and forgotten

Today marks the fifth year of our call for an industry-wide day of remembrance to honor murdered repossession agents. While 2024 saw fewer losses than the previous year, we are deeply saddened to have added three more names to the growing list of known Repossessors who have tragically lost their lives in the line of duty.

By tradition now, as when it lands on a workday, we observe Fallen Agents Day on February 26^th which is an intended day dedicated for reflecting on and commemorate the far too many brave individuals who have made the ultimate sacrifice while serving their profession.

This year, we add to this dark list the following:

Today is Fallen Agents Day – 2025

Gregory Hostetler – Owner of Greg’s Towing & Recovery, Mt. Zion, IL – On the afternoon of May 13^th, 2024, Gregory was shot dead during an altercation with an apparent borrower at his lot.

Steven Hughes – Agent, Carolina Tow and Recovery, Columbia, SC – On June 12^th of 2024, Steven was murdered by the brother of the borrower.

Khyré Grier – Agent, Charlotte, NC – Early in the morning on September 26, 2024, 25-year-old Khyre’ was murdered during a repossession while he girlfriend was on the phone.

Today is Fallen Agents Day – 2025

In addition, we have located a photo and grave of Twenty-five-year-old Edwin Joe Campbell a collector and skip tracer for the Pacific Finance Company who was ruthlessly murdered in New Years Eve in 1951.

Why This Date?

This date was chosen was chosen to commemorate that deadly night in 1994 that Houston repossession agent Tommy Deen Morris was murdered on a double assigned repossession account. Tragically, the police and DA refused to press charges.

Please join us in observing Fallen Agents Day on Wednesday, February 26^th.

This year, “Fallen Agents Day”, as it has become known, marks the 31st anniversary of this miscarriage of justice.

Since the earliest days of the repo industry, these tragedies were swept under the rug and forgotten. But for every agent killed, there were families and friends whose wounds never healed. Lives destroyed over a stupid car. And with the names of the three more men added to this dark roll, it is more appropriate than ever that we show our love and support for the families, agencies and coworkers of these men both past and present.

With that in mind, we are again requesting that all those who wish to show their unity in honoring those murdered in the line of duty by the wearing of black arm bands in their memory.

Say A Name

As an alternate form of remembrance, it was suggested by one agency owner, that we adopt a practice employed by a group known as “Wreaths Across America.” It is their practice that as they lay a wreath on the grave stones of fallen veterans that they also say their name out loud. By doing so, that person is not forgotten.

Even without the availability of wreaths or graves to lay them on, we can still employ this tradition in our own ways. Be it writing the name of a fallen agent on a whiteboard for the day, lighting a candle and saying their name or sharing their name and any details felt worthy of sharing on a bulletin to staff can ensure that the memories of duty and sacrifice that each of these men have suffered is never forgotten.

Below is a list of the names that I have located and links to their stories. Those not linked occurred before the internet era and can be found in my book, Repo Blood.;

Ablon, Alvin S. – Barber, Floyd “Rich” – Beckham, Antonio – Blackwell, Robert C. – Britt, Lonnie – Campbell, Edwin Joe – Carlin, Cody – Clark, Clarence E. – Clark, Ronald D.- Click, Jayson – Connor, Troy – Garcia, Edward S.- Grier, Khyre’ – Hodges, William – Hostetler, Gregory – Hughes, Steven – Humphries, Elwood – Jacobson, Jack – Johnson, Allan – Jones, Jesse – LaPrairie, Blaine – Lawson, Steve – Lewandowski, Tom – Lowe, Jeffrey –David, Manno – Michael, Martin Curtis – McCracken, Gary – McGuigan, William – Medqueaux, Jorie Thos. – Miller, Terry – Montero, Junior Jordan – Morgan, Steve – Morris, Tommy Deen – Nielsen, Tim – Passingham, Frank – Peters, John Henry – Pierce, Kevin Sr. – Purple, Will S. – Reardon, Bernard – Ridder, Mark Brian – Rivera, Wilfred – Robins, Jeffery Scott – Rose, Allen – Russell, Brandon – Russell, Graylon – Russell, William Elmer – Sharp, William Paul – Showell, Todd – Sutton, Gary Lee – Tallon, Rick – Thomas, Brandon – Thompson, Allen – Visee, Gregory Allen (A.k.a. Kegger), Wainwright, Buster – Wright, Brendon Keith