George Leighton Pomraning Jr., a 26-year-old police officer with the Arlington County Police Department, tragically lost his life on September 2, 1973. Officer Pomraning was shot and killed while transporting a prisoner after making an arrest. The incident occurred near the intersection of 8th Street and South George Mason Drive in Arlington, Virginia.
On the evening of his death, Officer Pomraning and his partner, Officer Gerald Dawson, had stopped to address a shoplifting incident just
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