Larry Randolph Cox was a 44-year-old police officer from Chillicothe, Ohio, who was shot and killed on April 21, 2005. Cox, a D.A.R.E. Officer who had served with the Chillicothe Police Department for 19 years, was off-duty when he observed a robbery suspect fleeing from another officer and joined the pursuit. The suspect had stolen a car and robbed a gas station roughly an hour earlier. The confrontation occurred in an alley between Chestnut Street and Church Street, near High Street, where the suspect shot and killed Officer Cox.

The suspect was arrested nine days later in Pickaway County for a parole violation; evidence later connected him to the murder and he was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Cox’s death deeply affected the community, prompting numerous memorials and tributes, and he is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Chillicothe.

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