Jerry E. Trimmer

On August 14, 1966, Officer Jerry Edwin Trimmer was working Uniform Patrol when he was fatally injured in a traffic crash near the intersection of Harvie Road and Laburnum Avenue.

Jerry Edwin Trimmer was born in Richmond, Virginia, on May 4, 1940. He was educated in Henrico and Lancaster County Public Schools. While attending Highland Springs High School, Trimmer participated in government and athletic student activities. Trimmer graduated in June 1959, and in September, he married his high school sweetheart.

Trimmer joined the United States Air Force in February 1960. He received his first exposure to policing while assigned to the Security Police Detachment at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey; and was honorably discharged in June 1963.

Trimmer became a Henrico Police Officer on July 16, 1965. Following his basic police training, he was assigned to Uniform Patrol.