Thomas Miller

In the summer of 1927, the community of Leighton, Alabama, was shaken by the violent death of one of its own. Thomas P. Miller, a White male and the Sheriff of Colbert County, became the victim of a fatal shooting on Sunday, June 12, 1927. The unfortunate event unfolded at the Poplar Creek Church, where Sheriff Miller was attending an all-day singing, a common social and religious gathering of the time.

While at the church, a man who harbored a personal grudge against the sheriff opened f ...

Sheriff Thomas P. Miller - Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP)