On the night of December 31, 1997, First Sergeant Frankie Lee Lingard, a 39-year-old male officer with the South Carolina Highway Patrol, was tragically killed in the line of duty. A 15-year veteran of the patrol and a United States Army veteran, Lingard was conducting a traffic stop on a speeding white Ford Mustang on Interstate 95 near Santee, South Carolina. As he approached the driver's side of the vehicle, he was shot multiple times and died at the scene. At the time of the shooting, Sergea
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