TERRY LEE LANIER

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Officer Rank: Patrol Officer
Memorial Panel: 64-E: 8
Department: Jacksonville, North Carolina, P.D.
End of Watch: May 11, 1979
Cause: NIFE
Age: 25
Years of Service: 2
Description: Officer Lanier was stabbed in the neck with a 10 inch knife by a mentally deranged man. Officer Lanier had responded to a call of a mentally deranged man wielding a knife and threatening to kill someone. Officer Lanier was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead of a severed artery. The suspect was shot and placed in protective custody.
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