Garnet Richmond

Williamson Police Department — Williamson, WV

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 21, 1962

Age 43

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 3

Incident

Lieutenant Garnet Richmond was shot and killed when he and another officer responded to a domestic disturbance at a downtown restaurant. A man who had been arguing with his wife shot Lieutenant Richmond once in the head as the officers walked up to him sitting in his car. The other officer returned fire, wounding the suspect. A week later, the suspect suffered critical injuries when he leaped from his hospital room's third-floor window. He died a month later. Lieutenant Richmond was a United States Army WWI veteran. He is buried at Mountain View Memory Gardens at Huddy, Pike County, Kentucky.

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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.
Lieutenant Richmond served with the Williamson Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Williamson 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 Williamson Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Williamson, Mingo County, WV

Platform Identity wpd.mingo.wv.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 21, 1962

Age 43

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Garnet Richmond served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Lieutenant Garnet Richmond 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 97,756 officers honored here.

In WV, 169 of 232 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 72.8% of this state's fallen. That is 72.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Williamson Police Department, 3 of 4 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 75% of this agency's fallen.

Williamson Police Department

of 4 officers

75% Felonious

WV — Statewide

169

of 232 officers

72.8% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Felonious