LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Friday marks a tragic anniversary for the Little Rock Police Department.
Officials said May 15, 1993, was the day LRPD officer Henry L. Callanen was shot. Callanen was working at a local McDonald’s as security when he was shot and killed by two men while taking the day’s proceeds to the bank for deposit.
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Reports in the Democrat-Gazette state the 62-year-old Callanen was wearing his uniform when he was shot. The bag he was carrying to the bank contained $2,683. He had served on the force for 36 years at the time of his death.
The two men who ambushed Callanen were, at the time, 17-year-old Derrell Ray Childress and 18-year-old Everett Lamont Foreman, a former McDonald’s worker. Both were given life sentences without parole, but Childress’s was overturned after a 2018 Supreme Court ruling that no-parole life sentences on child defendants were cruel and unusual punishment, according to a Democrat-Gazette report.
Childress’s sentence was reduced to 40 years with 20 years suspended because of the court decision. A conviction for drugs in 2023, however, led to his being sentenced to serve the remaining 20 years plus five years for the drug charge, which was determined to be a violation of his sentencing agreement on his murder conviction.
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Both are listed as inmates in the Arkansas Department of Corrections…