C. C. Lynn

Pine Bluff Police Department — Pine Bluff, AR

Felonious

End of Watch February 5, 1920

Age 35

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Detective C.C. Lynn was shot and killed by a suspect while responding to a shooting call at a home between South Texas Street, South Georgia Street, and East Second Avenue. As officers surrounded the home the man fired a shotgun from an upstairs window, striking Detective Lynn in the head. A group of citizens surrounded the home and burned it down to flush the suspect out. As he came out of the home he was shot and killed in a fusillade of bullets fired by the citizens. The man was known to have mental health issues and had acted violently in the past. A female bystander standing two blocks away from the home was killed by a stray bullet during the shootout.

Survivors

Detective Lynn was survived by his wife, daughter, parents, and several siblings.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Detective Lynn served with the Pine Bluff Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Pine Bluff community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Lynn.

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

Agency

Department Pine Bluff Police Department

Location Pine Bluff, AR

Platform Identity pbpd.jefferson.ar.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 5, 1920

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Offender Shot and killed

Detective C. C. Lynn is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In AR, 249 of 372 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.9% of this state's fallen. That is 12.7 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Pine Bluff Police Department, 5 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Pine Bluff Police Department

of 5 officers

100% Felonious

AR — Statewide

249

of 372 officers

66.9% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious