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Detective Jacob Arthur "Jake" Beu passed away on Sunday, May 7, 2023 at the age of 31 as he was serving the citizens of Rutherford County, Tennessee.

Jake was born in Elgin, Ill. on March 1, 1992. When he was three years old, the family moved to Colorado. As a young boy and big brother to Garrett and Josh, he played baseball, football and the trombone in band. Upon the family relocating to Tennessee in 2006, Jake attended Livingston Academy high school in Livingston, Tenn. He was active in his local church, football and worked on an alpaca farm. He loved hunting, going to Dale Hollow Lake and spending time with his friends. He graduated in 2010 and attended The University of the South, playing football as a Sewanee Tiger for two years.

Jake's longing to become a United States Marine became his focus which he pursued and graduated as a U.S. Marine Corp reservist in 2013. He continued his education at the University of Tennessee Chattanooga. Jake started his law enforcement career with the Clay County Sheriff's Office, graduating from the Tennessee Law Enforcement Academy in 2016. He continued his career with the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office and completed his Bachelor of Science degree, with honors, from Bethel University in 2022.

Since becoming an employee of the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office, he has received training in Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement from the Tennessee Highway Safety Office in 2019, along with a Bronze Enforcement award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving for 48 DUI convictions in 2018. Corporal Beu also attended training at the FEMA Center for Domestic Preparedness in Anniston, Alabama for Bomb Prevention and Mobile Field Force Operations in May 2019. Corporal Beu began serving as an FTO with the field training program in 2019. Jacob made the Sheriff's Office Special Weapons And Tactics team in July of 2019 where he functioned as a Master Breacher and an Entry Team Member. Beu was also assigned as Firearms Instructor in which he received his certification with OTG Tactical in October 2020, and his Instructor Development Course at the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office in April 2021. Jacob was promoted to Corporal on the Patrol Division in April 2021, functioning as a supervisor on Second Shift. In March 2022 Beu was promoted to the rank of Narcotics Detective in the Sheriff's Office Narcotics Unit where he remained until the time of his death.

Jake is survived by his mother Lorie Wilson; brothers Josh Beu and wife Faith and Garrett Wilson Beu; girlfriend Katie Bush; father Roger Beu; as well as numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and extended family.

He is preceded in death by his maternal grandparents Marv and Carol Wilson and paternal grandparents Barbara and Roger Beu, Sr.

Services to celebrate Detective Beu will be Friday, May 19 at 12 p.m. at Franklin Road Baptist Church, 3148 Franklin Road, Murfreesboro, TN 37128. Burial with honors will follow at Miller Cemetery in Christiana, Tenn. Friends are invited to visitation on Thursday, May 18 from 4-8 p.m. also at Franklin Road Baptist Church.

Memorials may be made to St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital or to Special Olympics. Memorials may be sent in Beu's name to Roselawn Funeral Home & Memorial Gardens, 5350 NW Broad Street, Murfreesboro, TN 37129.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy for the Beu family may be shared at http://www.roselawnfh.com.