Terence Olridge was an expectant father.
By Raif Karerat
A Memphis police officer who was expecting his first child was fatally shot on Sunday afternoon.
Terence Olridge, 31, was shot multiple times at a home in Cordova, Tennessee around 1 p.m.
Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said the “details are sketchy” but an investigation is ongoing. “There are more questions than we have answers right now,” he said.
Olridge’s uncle informed local news outlet WREG that his nephew was headed to work and was wearing his uniform when he was shot by a neighbor. He then crawled to his home and banged on his garage door to get help, but later died after being rushed to a hospital.
Olridge had been on the force for slightly more than a year and had a fiancée who is four months pregnant, authorities said.
Fox news reported Monday that Lorenzo Clark, 36, was charged with felony possession of a firearm in connection with Olridge’s death.
Karen Lax also lives in the neighborhood and told WMC she witnessed the suspect during a previous hostile encounter with a different neighbor.
“I’m not really surprised something bad happened,” she said.
Olridge is the fourth Memphis officer to be shot dead in slightly more than four years.
His death comes only two months after Officer Sean Bolton was fatally shot. Authorities believe an ex-convict shot Bolton as the officer interrupted a drug deal, reported the Associated Press. A suspect in that case, Tremaine Wilbourn, has been charged with first-degree murder.