Charles Ellington Nichols, Officer
Coweta Police Department
About 3:30 P.M. on Wednesday, May 3, 1995, Officer Charles E. Nichols, 44, was en route to back another officer on a report of a man entering Coweta Elementary School armed with a knife. Nichols, south bound on Highway 51, entered the middle turn lane to pass another vehicle. That vehicle entered the same lane forcing Nichols into the oncoming northbound lane where he collided with another car, killing him. Nichols was survived by his wife.