Public invited to services for Alden Elliott, who was killed in Charlotte shooting
Editor’s note: The Catawba County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday that the public is invited to the Thursday service after earlier in the week saying the family requested it be closed to the public. This story has been updated.
The public is invited to a Thursday service to pay tribute to Alden Elliott, one of four officers killed in a Charlotte shooting.
Elliott was a 14-year officer with the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction. He had a wife and a child.
Elliott was among the U.S. Marshals Carolinas Regional Fugitive Task Force members who went to serve a warrant at an east Charlotte home April 29 when a man fired at least 100 rounds from a high-powered rifle, police said.
Also killed were Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Officer Joshua Eyer, Deputy U.S. Marshal Thomas M. “Tommy” Weeks Jr., and Sam Poloche, also a 14-year veteran of the Department of Adult Correction.
Funeral procession details
Elliott’s funeral will be at 6 p.m. at the Tarlton Complex at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, Catawba County Sheriff’s Maj. Aaron Turk said. The general public is invited, but the service is closed to news media.
Elliott’s family also invites members of the community who wish to pay their respects to do so during the procession, Turk said.
The procession is scheduled to leave Bennett Funeral Home in Newton at 4:30 p.m. and travel west on U.S. 70 from Conover to the college.
A private funeral service for Poloche is scheduled for Monday at First Baptist Church in Charlotte, where Eyer’s funeral was held on Friday.
This story was originally published May 7, 2024 at 12:12 PM.