William McDaniel Terry

In the summer of 1925, the city of Roanoke, Virginia, was shaken by a violent event that would claim the lives of three of its own police officers. Among them was Patrolman William McDaniel Terry, a 35-year-old man who had served on the force for three years. On the first of July, Terry, along with Detective Ambrose M. Smith and Patrolman Claude H. Morgan, was tasked with conducting a raid on a house located at Shenandoah Avenue and 22nd Street, NW, where illegal liquor was suspected to be prese ...