Will Jeffries

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Will Jeffries
Portrayed by	Thom Barry
First Appearance	Look Again
Status	Alive

Will Jeffries has been in Homicide for longer than anyone else. He joined the team in order to help find the person who killed his beloved wife. She was murdered in a hit and run in the winter of 96 when she was changing the tire of her car. Many years after tracking down the culprit and Will Jeffries is still on the team.

Ever since this, he has become very involved in Road Safety. He was told who the prime suspect was in his wife’s murder. On that night – exactly nine years after losing his wife, he went to find the killer. He dragged the man outside an empty bar and held his gun to the man’s head. He forced the man to tell him exactly why he did it and said that he had no right to live. He then realised that this wasn’t the right way out and left the scene.

He has been investigating cold cases for many years, and especially enjoys tending to those cases where the black community has become the victims. One case especially stands out for him. When he was just a young boy, he stumbled across the body of a murdered black man. But as time back then had it, he could not tell anyone as this would automatically make him the prime suspect, and being a black man, he had tough racial discrimination against him. The case went unsolved for 30 years, until one day, Will decided to open the case again, and soon it was solved for good.

Will is second in charge of the squad and takes this responsibility very serious. He has had a number of opportunities to show his true colours. This did cause a few problems however. In one particular case, with Will in charge, the team disagreed with each other quite a lot. He was forced to get to know each other separately. He knew who was better at what kind of job and who got along with whom. Altogether, this did not only help him in the long run, but the whole team.

He is very close with Lt. John Stillman. They have worked together for a long time. Lately, he has befriended Det. Nick Vera. The two are partners for most of the time and even though Nick does get on his nerves, the two are very good friends.

Overall, Will is a shy person. He still has not removed his wedding ring. Det. Vera and Valens are urging him to get out into the dating world again, but he refuses every time. He was once happy with his wife, and he does not want to lose her loving memory. However, over the last few cases, he has had a few women after him. He is quite confused over this, but is willing to see where this will go. He feels very uncomfortable when Nick questions him about this, and denies that it is a date – almost as though it is the wrong thing to do.

Detective Will Jeffries takes the law very seriously. He will do everything in his power to put the culprit behind bars. When working on one particular case, Will became so angry with one police officer who wrongfully put a man behind bars, he punched him in the head.