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SC Fallen Officers – April 3

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Today, we remember Federal Prohibition Agent Jesse Leroy Youmans.

On this date in 1923, Federal Prohibition Agent Leroy Youmans was shot and killed by bootleggers near Hartsville.

He and several other prohibition agents had located a still and hid nearby under the cover of darkness to wait for the moonshiners to arrive. When the suspects appeared and began working on the still, one of the agents stepped on a twig, snapping it while shifting his position.

Upon hearing the noise, the moonshiners began searching the area. Agent Youmans stood up and announced the men were under arrest. One of the moonshiners shone a flashlight in his face, blinding him, and then fatally shot him.

SC Fallen Officers – January 17

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Today, we remember Internal Revenue Service – Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division Investigator Lawrence Edgar Davis and York County Sheriff’s Office Detective Micheal Robert Doty.

On this date in 1956, Investigator Larry Davis and a pilot with the South Carolina National Guard were killed in a plane crash while searching for illegal stills in Inman.

On this date in 2018, Detective Micheal Doty succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained the previous day while searching for a subject who had shot a York County Sheriff’s canine handler earlier in the night.

SC Fallen Officers – January 10

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Today, we remember Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Special Agent James Fulton Grayson, III.

On this date in 1976, Special Agent James Grayson was killed in an automobile crash on Route 60 in Lexington County while returning home following an undercover assignment in Columbia.