Melvin Ray Lucas.
Chief of Police Melvin Lucas was shot and killed while he and a local constable attempted to serve warrants at a local residence on a man and his son for assaulting a police officer. As Chief Lucas attempted to subdue the father, when he resisted arrest, his 23-year-old son shot him in his legs with a shotgun. Chief Lucas bled to death before help arrived. The suspect was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison on December 21, 1972. Chief Lucas was a United States Army Korean War veteran who had served with the Milton Police Department for five years and had previously served with the Jacksonville Beach Police Department in Florida.
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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.
Chief of Police Lucas gave the Milton Police Department 15 years.
Thank you for your service to the Milton 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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