A processional on Thursday will honor William Elliot, one of four officers shot and killed Monday afternoon in Charlotte.
A processional on Thursday will honor William Elliot, one of four officers shot and killed Monday afternoon in Charlotte.
Authorities have identified Samuel „Sam“ Poloche, Joshua Eyer, William „Alden“ Elliot and Thomas M. Weeks, Jr., as the four law enforcement officers who died in Monday’s shooting in Charlotte. The four officers in total leave behind families with eight children, including young kids.
A total of eight officers were shot Monday, according to police, and a ninth officer broke his foot, when a suspect opened fire from the upstairs of a Charlotte home.
Poloche and Elliot were officers with the North Carolina Department of Adult Corrections, Weeks was a U.S. Marshal assigned to the Fugitive Task Force, and Eyer was a 6-year veteran of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.
