"That evening, he answered a disturbance call and confronted Willy Gray (Eagle Eye) at the top of a flight of stairs. He looked at me and said, "These are for the kids". Southern Pines High and was working part-time at the Colonial Store, at the corner of Connecticut and NE Broad, when Chief Newton came through the checkout line with a handful of candy bars. Research provided by Matt Moriarty and Intern Kirsten Beattie of the Pilot Newspaper (May 31, 2006) Later that evening, they gunned him down as he answered the door at his home. Harris told McCarn that he knew them to be drug dealers. Sitting in the next booth were several men. ".On April 4, 1991, Detective Ed Harris sat down to have lunch with his partner, Carol McCarn, and SBI Special Agent Tom McSwain. Earlier in his career he worked with the Aberdeen and Robbins police departments.īy the day of Ed Harris' funeral, eight young men had been arrested and charged with first degree murder. While leading a group of motorcycles through Moore and Montgomery Counties, Officer Klingenschmidt's motorcycle exited the roadway into a ravine, which resulted in his untimely death.Ī 20 year veteran of law enforcement, Ed Harris, 45, had served for 13 years as a member of the Hoke County Sheriff's Department before going to work for Southern Pines Police Department. On June 15, 2013, Officer (Lt.) Stanley Klingenschmidt was participating in a Community Oriented Policing event in support of the Special Olympics.