Richard Carrington

In the early morning hours of September 25, 1981, a tense situation unfolded in Lexington, Tennessee, that would end in the tragic death of a dedicated public servant. Richard Carrington, the 40-year-old White male Chief of Police, was a man who had served the Lexington Police Department for 18 months. His life was cut short in a calculated ambush by a man he had previously arrested.

The chain of events began when Henry Darnell Plummer took a woman hostage inside a residence at 454 Frankl ...

Charles Richard Carrington (1941-1981) - monumento Find a Grave

Reflections for Chief of Police Richard Carrington