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Police Officer

Arthur Glenn Craft Jr.

Greensboro Police Department — Greensboro, NC

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch February 14, 1974

Age 26

Tour of Duty 3 yrs

Badge 223

The Vigil Panel 113 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 13

Incident

Police Officer Arthur Craft was shot and killed after responding to a call of a man carrying a shotgun and creating a disturbance in the woods behind 1702 Dillon Road. When Officer Craft arrived on the scene he was ambushed by the man and shot in the chest with a shotgun. The man also shot and wounded two other officers before being taken into custody. The man was convicted of second-degree murder and two counts of assault with intent to kill. He was sentenced to 70 years in prison on October 9th, 1974. He was released from prison on September 8th, 2009. The subject, who had a history of violence and assaulting guards while in prison, was jailed three days after his release for resisting arrest. Officer Craft was a U.S. Coast Guard veteran and had served with the Greensboro Police Department for three years. He had also worked for the Mecklenburg County Police Department.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and son.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Police Officer Craft gave the Greensboro Police Department 3 years.
Thank you for your service to the Greensboro community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Greensboro Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Greensboro, Guilford County, NC

Platform Identity greepd.guilford.nc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 14, 1974

Tour of Duty 3 yrs

Age 26

Badge Number 223

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Military Service

Arthur Glenn Craft Jr. served in the U.S. Coast Guard (1966â1970) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Arthur Glenn Craft Jr. is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In NC, 385 of 664 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 58% of this state's fallen. That is 58 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Greensboro Police Department, 7 of 14 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 50% of this agency's fallen.

Greensboro Police Department

of 14 officers

50% Felonious

NC — Statewide

385

of 664 officers

58% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious