PHILIP GEORGE SCHLATTERER

Officer Rank: Lieutenant
Memorial Panel: 7-W: 16
Department: Columbia, South Carolina, P.D.
End of Watch: July 25, 1974
Cause: SHOT
Age: 54
Years of Service: 26
Description: Lieutenant Schlatterer was shot while investigating a murder that had occurred earlier that day. Lieutenant Schlatterer was told that the suspect was hiding in the basement of a house. As Lieutenant Schlatterer entered the house, he was shot in the chest at point-blank range with a 16-guage shotgun. His assailant was killed and two officers were wounded in an exchange of gunfire. A second suspect was arrested.
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