Lewis Edward Robinson, Sr.

Mecklenburg County Police Department — Charlotte, NC

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch May 4, 1970

Age 44

Tour of Duty 22 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Sergeant Lewis Robinson was shot and killed while attempting to serve a warrant with eight other officers. Earlier in the day, a woman in a rural area called the electric company to report that her electricity was out. When a company employee arrived on the scene, he determined that the woman's water was out, not the electricity. The water had been turned off by a neighbor. As the employee prepared to leave, the neighbor exited his house. The neighbor fired several shots into the utility truck and at the employee. The employee signed a warrant for the discharging of a weapon into occupied property. When the officers arrived on the scene, they surrounded the house and fired tear gas into it. When there was no response from inside, they determined the subject was not in the house and they began to search the area. The subject was hiding under a tree 50-feet away. The man opened fire with a military carbine rifle, striking Sergeant Robinson. The other officers returned fire and wounded the man, 54, critically. Shot in the head six times he stayed in a hospital several weeks and was later committed at Dorothea Dix Mental Hospital where he was deemed unfit to stand trial. Sergeant Robinson was survived by his wife, daughter, and son. He served four years in the navy during World War II.

Survivors

Sergeant Robinson was survived by his wife, daughter, 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.
Sergeant Robinson gave the Mecklenburg County Police Department 22 years.
Thank you for your service to the Charlotte 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 Mecklenburg County Police Department

Location Charlotte, NC

Platform Identity mcpd.mecklenburg.nc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 4, 1970

Tour of Duty 22 yrs

Age 44

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle

Offender Committed

Military Service

Lewis Edward Robinson, Sr. served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Sergeant Lewis Edward Robinson, Sr. 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 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 3.8 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Mecklenburg County Police Department, 6 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Mecklenburg County Police Department

of 6 officers

100% Felonious

NC — Statewide

385

of 664 officers

58% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious