Tennessee cop was taking no ‘official police action’ when shot dead
Officer Terence Olridge was not taking any “official police action” when shot dead in an exchange of gunfire in the US state of Tennessee, a police chief says.
Police director Toney Armstrong appeared before reporters in Memphis on Tuesday to make the announcement in regard to Olridge’s Sunday shootout with his neighbor, Lorenzo Clark, The Guardian reported.
On his way to work, Armstrong said, the deceased officer (pictured below) had “exchanged words” with the 36-year-old neighbor, of which there were conflicting witness accounts.
Armstrong failed to elaborate on how the conversation escalated into the gunfight or who shot first.
Earlier in the day, the neighbor was charged as a convicted felon in possession of a handgun with the judge setting his bond at $100,000.
According to the Memphis police director, the officer was not in complete police uniform but used his service weapon.
The Memphis Police Department is not dealing with the case as a cop’s death in the line of duty, “due to the fact that officer Olridge was not on duty at the time nor was he taking an official police action.”
Multiple shots from the neighbor’s 9mm Glock handgun killed the 31-year-old cop.
He is the fourth Memphis cop to have been shot dead in the past four years.
“Our department has not thoroughly healed, or completely healed, from the last time we just went through this,” Armstrong said. “It’s draining, it’s emotionally draining.”
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