Eugene Hollins Sr.

In the late evening hours of November 25, 1967, in Petersburg, Virginia, the life of 34-year-old Patrol Officer Eugene Hollins Sr., a Black/African American male, was tragically cut short in a senseless act of violence. Officer Hollins was responding to a report of shots fired near the intersection of Harding and Mistletoe Streets. While engaged in conversation with two individuals who had made the complaint, he was suddenly and without provocation shot in the chest and thigh.

Despite his ...