A sea of blue

Published 8:47 am Friday, May 30, 2025

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Law enforcement officers drive with their blue lights on to honor Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Sentorio Jamel Dennis, in Oxford, Miss.. on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (©Bruce Newman)

Law enforcement officers drove with their blue lights on to honor Mississippi Highway Patrol Trooper Sentorio Jamel Dennis Thursday night.

Sentorio Jamel Dennis. (MHP/Facebook)

They left from the Lafayette County Arena, drove down Highway 6, and then went around the Oxford Square before heading back down South Lamar Boulevard to Highway 6.

A Lafayette County native and Lafayette High Class of 2012 graduate, he was known by his badge number E-30. He died at his home in Abbeville on Thursday, May 23.

He was 31.

Dennis was assigned to Troop E, based in Batesville.

Click here for funeral information and a full obituary.

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