(WBIR) Drivers traveling through East Tennessee will now have an extra reminder of a Loudon County deputy's ultimate sacrifice.
Officials dedicated several miles of I-75 on Saturday as the Deputy Jason Michael Scott Memorial Highway.
Scott was shot and killed while responding to a domestic call back in March 2004.
He was only 24 years old. But for those years, Jason's sister said he was one of her best friends.
""You couldn't go a day without him trying to make you smile. He felt like that was his job was to make you smile, make things easier on people," Jayme Brown, Jason's sister, said.
She said it means a lot to be able to share his memory with East Tennessee.
His former boss, Loudon County Sheriff Tim Guider, described Scott as a wonderful person, a perfect citizen, and a man who always had a smile on his face.
The Deputy Jason Michael Scott Memorial Highway is from mile marker 68 to 81 on I-75.
