On August 15, 2003, Chief of Police Verlon LeMaster, Jr., aged 49, was fatally shot in Grant, Alabama. With 28 years of law enforcement experience, including 20 years with the Grant Police Department and 13 years as chief, he was a respected figure in the community.
That morning, Chief LeMaster joined deputies from Marshall and Madison counties at a residence on Cathedral Caverns Highway to recover a stolen handgun. Upon confronting two juvenile suspects inside the house, an exchange of
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