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    My name is Lamont C. Underwood, but all my life I have been called ‘L.C.” by my family and friends.  I am 51 years old and at the present time I am an inmate at the Pasquotank Correctional Institution located at 527 Commerce Drive in Elizabeth City, North Carolina 27906-5005.
            I was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in Forsyth County on September 10, 1951.  My parents, Burl and Barbara Childress, live in Columbus, Ohio.  I was educated in the public schools in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and graduated from R.J. Reynolds High School in 1969.
            After working at Reynolds Tobacco Company for several years, I decided to become a police officer.  I joined the North Wilkesboro Police Department in 1975 and took my basic police training at the Justice Academy, given at the time through Forsyth Technical College.  I graduated at the end of 1975.  I stayed with the North Wilkesboro Police Department through 1976, when I left for a job as a Deputy Sheriff with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office.  From 1976 through 1982 I served as a deputy sheriff with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s office.  I served as jailer, patrol deputy, and as a Sergeant-Supervisor of a patrol squad.  Finally, from 1978 through 1982 I was assigned as a criminal investigator. 
            In December 1982, I left Lincoln County and took a job with the Salisbury Police Department in Salisbury, North Carolina.  I was a patrol officer, master police officer, and assistant team leader of a patrol team.  In 1984 I went back to college and in 1986 I graduated from Rowan Cabarrus Community College with Associate Degrees in Criminal Justice in Law Enforcement and Corrections with a 4.0 GPA.  I also received the Outstanding Student Award for the Criminal Justice Degree Program.  Also while with the Salisbury Police Department, I took numerous in-house criminal justice classes and also served as a field-training officer.
            In November 1993 I retired from the Salisbury Police Department on disability.  I was hurt on the job when a porch I was standing on collapsed while I was investigating a break-in.  I underwent a series of back operations including a spinal fusion that left me disabled.