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Benjamin Crider

Case from Carrollton, GA dated Jun 08, 1900

Victim Details

Benjamin H. Crider

Male

White / Caucasian

Carrollton

GA

1900-06-08

30

Benjamin

Crider

07/15/2026

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Benjamin H. Crider, a 30-year-old White male and the chief of police in Carrollton, Georgia, was remembered as the town’s earliest documented police chief, a small-town officer working in a community of only a few hundred people when violence overtook him on June 8, 1900. The accounts that survive agree on the heart of what happened: Crider was trying to make an arrest when the man he was confronting opened fire and shot him. Even in the moment he was falling, Crider reportedly fired back, tur ...
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