Herbert Lee Strickland biography: 10 things about Chattanooga, Tennessee man

Herbert Lee Strickland was an American man from Tennessee, United States. Here are 10 more things about him:

1. He was a resident of Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee.
2. He is Harold C. Strickland Jr. and Geneva Hale Strickland‘s son.
3. He is Harold Clarence Strickland III, James Strickland, Alonzo Strickland, Deborah Wilson, Genella Strickland, Valorie Hughley, Audrey Cunningham, Diane Hicks and Brenda Avery‘s brother.
4. He is Henry Hale and Lena Hale‘s grandson.
5. In 1979, his son Reginald D. Siler was born.
6. On July 7, 1981, his daughter Meco Yvonne Siler was born in Chattanooga.
7. On January 6, 2011, his daughter Meco was fatally stabbed by Brandon Eugene “Big Baby” Russell, then 29, at the Country Hearth Suites in Chattanooga.
8. At around 9:35 a.m. on May 19, 2011, he was inside Big K Market on 909 Dodson Avenue in Chattanooga when a man walked into the store and started shooting. He was shot four times, twice in the head, while he was shielding a female customer. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was 53. Eyewitness Barbara Louise Johnson, then 43, told police the man looked like Antonio Dejong Espey, then 18.
9. On September 22, 2011, Espey was arrested and charged with first-degree murder for his murder. On July 6, 2012, Johnson was fatally shot in Chattanooga.
10. On May 23, 2013, a prosecutor dismissed the first-degree charges against Espey without prejudice in relation to his murder.