Clyde Wesley Gregg was a 51-year-old White man from Maplesville, Alabama, serving as a patrolman with the Maplesville Police Department when his life ended in gunfire on the night of December 8, 1959. It was late—around 10:50 p.m.—and the shift had the ordinary feel of small-town police work, the kind built on routine calls and quiet roads, until one arrest turned the night into something irreversible.
Gregg had taken a man into custody for public intoxication. The suspect, already in
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