Police officer Terry L. Griffith thought a service call to a Christiansburg business on Sept. 18, 1994, would just be a simple call. Samuel Jerome Patterson, 34, of West Virginia was accused of shoplifting a carton of cigarettes from Hill’s Department Store. Griffith was attempting to detain Patterson when the two struggled and Patterson managed […]
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