South Carolina Highway Patrol South Carolina End of Watch: Saturday, October 29, 1988 Cause: Gunfire
Biographical Info Age: 41 Tour of Duty: 16 years Badge Number: 699 Trooper George Radford was shot and killed while on duty. The suspect had submerged his body in a pond off of SC Highway 34, where it was found the following day.
The suspect in his murder was found not-guilty in his fifth trial. The juries in the previous four trials all found him guilty.
Trooper Radford was survived by his wife, daughter, mother, and three siblings. |