Love and drugs: Remembering the Elvis Gene Shifflett manhunt
A recent arrest triggers memories of a decades-old manhunt and police shooting...
Local news outlets dutifully reported that Jeffery Wayne Shifflett, 58, was arrested following a brief police chase on Saturday, according to a release from the Albemarle County police department. The pursuit ended somewhere in Earlysville shortly after Shifflett lept from his moving vehicle and tried to flee on foot. Shifflett was wanted for shoplifting and eluding police, which he had already done twice before on September 3 and October 13. He now faces multiple felony charges.
Why, I thought, did this sound familiar? And then it hit me. I’d written about Shifflett and his brother running from the police nearly two decades ago.
Nineteen years ago today, Shifflett’s younger brother, Elvis Gene Shifflett, then 38, was shot by police following an intense, military-style manhu…
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