Today, we remember South Carolina Highway Patrol Patrolman John Ray Riddle, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources Corporal Doyle Hayes Hill, Sr., and Orangeburg Department of Public Safety Sergeant Thomas Clyde Harrison, Jr.
On this date in 1961, Patrolman John Riddle was killed in an automobile crash when his patrol car was struck by a tractor-trailer on U.S. 301 south of Manning. On this date in 1976, Corporal Doyle Hill suffered a heart attack while carrying a boat across a field in Clarendon County to rescue someone stranded because of weather conditions.
On this date in 1993, Sergeant Thomas Harrison was shot and killed at the local Belk department store inside Prince of Orange Mall at 2390 Chestnut Street NE while attempting to question three subjects who had passed forged checks.
