Today, we remember Greenville Police Department Patrolman William Frank Chasteen, Forest Acres Police Department Patrolman Richey O’Brian Finch, and Kershaw County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Sheriff Ernest Christian Potter, III.
On this date in 1971, Patrolman William Chasteen was shot and killed while he and his partner attempted to question a man about an earlier shooting.
On this date in 1975, Patrolman Richey Finch was shot and killed during a traffic stop at 1:30 a.m. on Forest Drive near Gamewell Drive.
On this date in 1974, Deputy Sheriff Ernest Potter was shot and killed when he and his partner stopped to investigate two men who were hitchhiking on I-20, near U.S. 601.
