| Charles Lee Herron | |
|---|---|
 | |
| FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitive | |
| Description | |
| Born | April 21, 1937 |
| Status | |
| Added | February 9, 1968 |
| Caught | June 18, 1986 |
| Number | 265 |
| Captured | |
Charles Lee Herron (born April 21, 1937) [1] [2] was an American criminal who featured on the FBI Top Ten Wanted list. [3] He was arrested in 1986 in connection with a 1968 shooting of two police officers. [4]
Herron was an advocate of the black power. In January 1968, while racial tensions in Nashville, Tennessee were strenuous, he shot and killed two police officers. Officer Thomas Johnson died instantly from a 30-30 rifle, while officer Charles Thomasson died three months later from his wounds after they were called to investigate five black men parked in a dead end street. Four of the men were suspected in a money order scheme. [5] He was arrested 18 years later in Jacksonville, Florida. when police staked out his home. [6] [7]
He was arrested alongside one of the five accomplices, William Garrin Allen, who was also on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. He had escaped prison for the same murders where he was sentenced for 99 years. [8] Herron was subsequently interrogated and he told officers he had actually been arrested in 1975 for a fake license in Atlanta, Georgia, but was not recognized. [9]
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