Portion of Florence County road could soon be named after fallen police officer
Proposal to rename road for Sgt. Carraway By Cameron Crowe | April 7, 2021 at 8:59 PM EDT - Updated April 7 at 8:59 PM
FLORENCE COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - Florence Police Sgt. Terrence Carraway drove along Hoffmeyer Road moments before losing his life in the Vintage Place shooting in 2018.
Now, that same road could bear his name forever.
“That is the sole purpose of this is the recognition for Officer Carraway that they can see that name and if they don’t know it, they can look it up and find the information and be right in the place it happened,” Allison Carraway said.
carraway, jeffrey amos and colin richards. thanks for joining us this morning. good morning. i m glad to see i know that both officer carraway and richards, you were shot. thank goodness everybody is okay and able to talk with us. i want to start with you officer carraway. you were a marines for eight years and you said when you made eye contact with this suspect you knew right away he might be up to something. explain how you first saw him and what went through your mind at the time? well, i recognized the individual, the shooter walking up towards me, and in my mind i said, okay, it s time to get up and acknowledge this person coming in. when i looked at the shooter, he looked at me, and i recognized he had a certain look on his face. once i saw that, what went through my mind was like, this is it. something is about to happen. and so what did you do from there? well, the shooter continued to look at me. he drew his weapon and he started firing. once he started firing, i