Lynchburg VA Feb 21 2013 — Retired borough police Lt. John Philbrook and his wife, Virginia, were murdered at their home in Lynchburg, Va., Campbell County authorities have said.Police have said the bodies of both Philbrook, 73, and his wife, 71, were found Friday after neighbors had requested a welfare check on the two after newspapers and mail had collected on their property.
Officials from the Campbell County Sheriff’s department said neighbors reported they last saw Philbrook outside his home on Feb. 12.
Once there, police discovered both victims had been shot.
Their grandson, 27-year-old Robert Lee Philbrook, has been charged with second-degree murder and related firearms charges by police. He is being held at the Blue Ridge Regional Jail.
“We’re all shocked. He was one of the great guys,” said Spring Lake Police Chief Edward Kerr.
“The members, present and retired, of the Spring Lake Police Department would like to express our deepest sympathy to the Philbrook family,” Kerr said. “This news has saddened those who used to work with John along with the newer members of the department who know him from the stories passed down through the years.”
Born on July 28, 1939, in Vinalhaven, Maine, Philbrook was hired as a patrolman in Spring Lake in 1967. He received a medal of valor from the borough in 1980 for rescuing two boys who had fallen through the ice in Spring Lake and for disarming a suspect who produced a semi-automatic handgun in police headquarters and aimed it at several officers.
He was promoted to lieutenant in 1987.
Kerr said Philbrook had moved to the Lynchburg, Va., home shorty after retiring from the Spring Lake force in 1991.
Kerr and three members of the borough’s police department will attend the funeral services in Lynchburg on Friday.
Source-APP.com
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