CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCIV) — 11 years ago on Sept. 8, Deputy Joe Matuskovic with the Charleston County Sheriff’s Office died responding to a call at a West Ashley apartment complex.
Matuskovic was shot through an apartment door by Michael Oswald, who also died in the gunfire, on Sept. 8, 2014. In 2017, the intersection of Carriage Lane and Highway 61 was named in Matuskovic’s honor, and in 2023 his parents accepted a Law Enforcement Medal of Honor on his behalf in front of his monument in the CCSO Fallen Officer Memorial Garden.
Parents of fallen CCSO deputy Joe Matuskovic accept Medal of Honor in his memory“…