John Sheppard

John Sheppard is a character played by Gh0stRP.

General Description
John Sheppard was formerly an Officer for the Unified Police Department, Badge #U-324.

He was formerly the Captain of the Department of Corrections, Badge #744.

Past
John Sheppard was born in Los Angeles, California. He was the sole child of Eric Sheppard and Melinda Sheppard. His father was a law enforcement officer within the Los Angeles Police Department. From a young age, John developed an interest to follow his father's step with all the stories that his father would tell him about his work.

Even as a teenager, John would always protect and help everyone from bullies and would always try to save everyone, even people that were a lost cause, that's just how John is. As soon as he could, John applied and started his education to be like his father, a police officer. At the age of 20, John joined the Los Angeles Police Department Academy. He went through every training he could possibly do to be prepared to this dangerous world, either for tactical fighting techniques or even trainings to better his people skills. John was really dedicated and finally, at the age of 21, he graduated from the LAPD academy.

Once in the LAPD, John progressed rapidly through the department through the years even considering his young age. Through his leadership skills and his skills that he acquired through a lot of various training, John quickly went up to the rank of Sergeant I at the age of 29. He was loved by his peers due to how he was leading by example.

At the age of 30, John was part of a confidential operation with the LAPD trying to dismantle a drug operation down in South LA. The whole operation went well and ended up with a lot of arrests and a lot of asset seizure. A few weeks later, John got a phone call that a shot fired call was phoned via 911 at his house. John rushed to his house, only to find his wife dead in a bath of blood in what seemed to be an execution. John went through all sorts of emotions but was determined to find who it was. An investigation ensued and it was found that a mole was inside LAPD and leaked out information about the members of team that took down the drug operations a few weeks back. Turns out it was a cartel from Mexico that wanted revenge. Eventually, through evidence and investigation, the perpetrator was found and arrested.

Unfortunately, after the investigation was done, John was never the same. He went through a big depression episode and had to go in therapy for several months. Back in a better shape, he just couldn't stand going back to work, so he left and moved to Los Santos, hopefully to find peace and start a new journey.

Present
After John moved to Los Santos back in February 2022 about a year after his wife's death. He was a bit lost, didn't really know where to go or what the future would hold. He tried to do some small jobs like Dodo deliveries, but it wasn't fulfilling enough, he wanted to go back in action. A few weeks into the city, John heard about the Department of Corrections and he decided to apply as John knew he couldn't just go and apply to be a police officer. He wanted to start at the bottom and get to know people and get his name out there.

One month into DoC, John was still feeling like it wasn't enough. He wanted back into more action and helping people beyond the walls of Bolingbroke State Penitentiary. In the meantime, John although met amazing people, such as Charles Lafayette who John ended up getting friends, even best friends, and ended up going to live with Charles when he first bought in house in Sandy Shores. John was thriving within DoC and quickly went up to the rank of Corporal within 3 months. He also joined the Bolingbroke Response Unit (equivalent of SWAT in LAPD) and became not long after a team leader under Command Jon Castle.

A month later, John had the opportunity he was looking for when Charles gave him a call and told him the good news, the Paleto Bay Sheriff's Office job fair that was going to be held later that day. John went to that fair and after 2 hours of waiting, he finally got the great news, he was hired to the PBSO as a cadet. John didn't expect this to happen so quickly, so he requested to have one last shift with DoC to say goodbye.

The next day, John came on duty and spoke with both Jessica Williams and Charles Lafayette. There were talks in the past few weeks about getting Jon Castle to be the next captain of the guard. John came up with the idea of having Charles to promote John to captain for an hour and cover up with the captain curse meme that has been going on with DoC for several months that if someone gets promoted to captain, they leave shortly after. Once John's shift was done, he called up a meeting for everyone on duty as Jon Castle was about to go off duty. John did a goodbye speech, which was very emotional for him. Afterwards, John asked Castle to step up in front of him. He gave him the stars on his collar and promoted Jon Castle to the rank of Captain of the guard as his last act within DoC.