Lamont Underwood
Lamont Claxton "L.C." Underwood, 67, was a former Salisbury police officer who had served with the Salisbury Police Department and at one time as a school resource officer at Salisbury High School. He retired in late 1993 due to an injury, according to the Watauga Democrat. He died on December 23, 2018, at Central Prison in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he was held in the custody of the state prison system. The N.C. Department of Public Safety said he died of natural causes, and no other cause or circumstance has been reported in these accounts.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The N.C. Department of Public Safety said Underwood died of natural causes at the hospital of Central Prison.
Reported by: N.C. Department of Public Safety (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.
Custody: Serving a sentence.
Sources (4)
- North Carolina Department of Adult Correction records, via UCLA Law Behind Bars
- Former police officer L.C. Underwood, convicted in notorious murder case 20 years ago, dies in prison
- Former police officer serving life sentence for 1993 murder has died in prison
- Convicted felon, former officer dies while serving sentence for 25-year-old murder