City Policeman Slain, assailant fled in officer's police cruiser. 

City Policeman Slain. A Beckley policeman was 
shot to death shortly before midnight Monday. 
His assailant then fled the scene in the officer's
police cruiser. Dead on arrival at Beckley
Appalachian Regional Hospital was Sgt. David Lee Lilly, 30. 
He was married and the father of one child. Police said
Sgt. Lilly was shot in the upper right chest. Officers
said the man, who abandoned his own car, which was
registered to a Charleston address, was believed headed
north on U.S. 21. Two young Beckley men said they were 
driving past the Town and Country Drive-In on W. Va. 3
when they saw Sgt. Lilly's patrol car parked behind another 
car. Sgt. Lilly was standing by the driver's window of the 
other car, they said, adding that both cars were facing
south on W. Va. 3. Shortly after passing the scene, they 
heard a shot, returned to the scene and found Sgt. Lilly
lying by the highway. The gunman fled in patrol car 406,
a blue Plymouth with two spotlights.


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