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Sergeant Anthony Scott Futrell | Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, North Carolina Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, North Carolina

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Anthony Scott Futrell

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, North Carolina

End of Watch: Wednesday, July 17, 2002

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 38

Tour: 15 years

Badge # Not available

Cause: Aircraft accident

Incident Date: 7/17/2002

Weapon: Not available

Suspect: Not available

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Sergeant Anthony Futrell, Major Robert Kennedy of the Boone Police Department, and Deputy Richard Ashley of the Chowan County Sheriff's Department, were killed in an airplane accident while searching for marijuana crops in Chowan County at 3:30 pm.

Approximately 90 minutes into the second flight of the day, the Cessna 172-S experienced problems and crashed. Witnesses on the ground heard the engine sputter and saw the plane nose dive into the ground. There were no radio messages from the pilots indicating any problems.

Sergeant Futrell and Major Kennedy, both members of the Civil Air Patrol, were piloting the aircraft and acting as spotters. Deputy Ashley was directing ground units to locations spotted during the flight for further investigation.

Sergeant Futrell had been employed with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department for 15 years, and is survived by his wife and two teenage children.

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Major Robert Steven Kennedy
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Deputy Sheriff Richard Edward Ashley, Sr.
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Scott and Bob were very good friends of mine and you are sorely missed! We never did get to fly those cadets and "hold the CAP plane hostage" so that we could fly all our cadets! Now you are flying higher than you ever expected to do! So keep those Angels straight and keep your wings pointed to the sky.

The hardest thing I have ever had to do was to visit your wives and tell them you had flown to be with angels in heaven and would not be returning home to them.

But I consider it an honor to have been asked to make that very special trip to your homes with our Wing Chaplain Wayne Gibson. That was the saddest day in my life.
Remembering our last meeting at Wing and the lunch we shared together planning the kidnapping of the CAP plane!

I lost 2 BEST FRIENDS that day! But some good came out of you loosing your lives I was in the right place to save 5 FIVE lives returning from Boone on the Saturday so Scott and Bob your passing was not in vane. Had you both not died my cadets and I would not have been able to save those 3 children and 2 adults that day.

I miss you both and want you to know you touched my life in many ways and now I have spent 10 years of my life finishing what you both started and I haven't done yet!

Fly High my friends I love you both!

Major Jane Raymond
Civil Air Patrol Middle East Region
November 28, 2011

 

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