In the late autumn of 1933, a disturbance call on Piedmont Avenue would tragically cut short the life of Piedmont's Chief of Police, Charles R. Smith, a male veteran of the United States Army who had served his community for five years. On Saturday, October 28, 1933, Chief Smith and Officer Augusta Kimberly were leaving a house they had been called to when they encountered a man brandishing a shotgun. When the Chief inquired what the man was doing, he was met with two blasts from the firearm.
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