Scott James Larkins

Death by Force

Scott James Larkins, a Detroit police officer, succumbed to complications from a gunshot wound he sustained on November 5, 1978. On that fateful day, Larkins and his partner were ambushed while leaving a restaurant at 7033 East Jefferson Boulevard. They were shot in the back with shotgun blasts as they walked back to their patrol car. The assailant, who fired from a second-story window of a nearby hotel, had a history of mental illness and harbored a grudge against police officers due to prior c ...Read More