Earl Phillips Wilkins served in the U.S. Navy.
Sergeant Earl Wilkins was struck and killed by a drunk driver on I-264 near Rodman Avenue at 9:30 p.m. He was parked on a grassy area off of the highway when the drunk driver struck him. He was assigned to the I-264 overpass for surveillance during the Martin Luther King riots. Sergeant Wilkins was a U.S. Navy veteran of the WWII and Korean Wars.
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In tribute
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 Wilkins served with the Portsmouth Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Portsmouth community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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