Larry Eugene Quinn

DeKalb County Police Department — Tucker, GA

Felonious

End of Watch February 4, 1973

Age 27

Tour of Duty 2 yrs 6 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 32

Incident

Officer Larry Quinn was intentionally struck by a vehicle being operated by an escaped prisoner who was fleeing from several police officers in a high-speed chase that began in Norcross. Officer Quinn was armed with his shotgun and positioned outside his patrol vehicle, awaiting the arrival of the suspect vehicle at the intersection of Buford Highway and Briarwood Road. When the suspect saw the officer, he drove his vehicle into the officer, killing him. The car he had stolen was found wrecked two miles away. The 18-year-old suspect had recently escaped from the Georgia Industrial Institute near Alto, where he was serving a seven-year term for burglary. The next day he shot and killed a 59-year-old woman at a liquor store she managed near Griffin as he robbed her. A week later, he was captured by an Elbert County Deputy Sheriff near Elberton when he saw the suspect walking on Highway 72. The suspect was convicted of two counts of murder and sentenced to two life terms. He was released in 1993. In 1996 he walked into a skating rink in Winter Haven, Florida, and shot and killed a man who was dating his ex-girlfriend. He shot him in the face with a shotgun as he begged for his life in front of several terrified children. Responding officers chased him for 50 minutes through Bartow, Mulberry, and Lakeland, where he stopped his car and opened fire on eight deputies, wounding one. As the deputies returned fire, he shot and killed himself. Officer Quinn had served with the DeKalb County Police Department for 2-1/2 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two daughters.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Officer Quinn gave the DeKalb County Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Tucker community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Officer Quinn.

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

Agency

Department DeKalb County Police Department

Location Tucker, GA

Platform Identity dcpd.dekalb.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 4, 1973

Tour of Duty 2 yrs 6 mo

Age 27

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Automobile

Offender Released in 1993

Officer Larry Eugene Quinn 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 GA, 548 of 903 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.7% of this state's fallen. That is 6.5 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At DeKalb County Police Department, 16 of 33 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 48.5% of this agency's fallen.

DeKalb County Police Department

of 33 officers

48.5% Felonious

GA — Statewide

548

of 903 officers

60.7% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious