On February 25, 1910, Deputy Sheriff W. H. Lucy was serving with the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office when a routine warrant service turned into a deadly ambush. William “W. H.” Lucy, a White male, joined two fellow deputies in tracking down a man wanted on a larceny charge, expecting the kind of tense but familiar encounter that came with the badge.
They found the suspect at a farm three miles west of Germantown. The warrant was read aloud, and for a moment it seemed the arrest migh
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