JAMES EDWARD GIDDENS
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Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 48-E: 11
Department: Ray City, Georgia, P.D.
End of Watch: February 11, 1976
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Chief Giddens was shot and killed after being abducted by three robbery suspects. Chief Giddens had stopped a vehicle that was speeding. Unbeknownst to him, the three suspects had just committed an armed robbery in Adel, Georgia. After abducting the chief, the suspects drove around trying to figure out what to do. They told Chief Giddens they were going to let him go and that he had to swim into a river so they had time to drive away. As he followed their instructions and swam away one of the men shot him in the back with his own service weapon. The suspect then entered the water and shot him several more times.
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