Friday's Internet Edition, July 25, 2008.
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| Law enforcement officers came to pay their respects to Sgt. Howard Plouff. |
Plouff, 41, died at 10:42 p.m. on February 23 at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, about 21 hours after sustaining a gunshot wound to the face during a brawl at the Red Rooster nightclub on Jonestown Road in Winston-Salem.
Several fights broke out inside the club, which had been rented for a private party, around 2 a.m. Friday morning. Four off-duty sheriff’s deputies who had been contracted to provide security at the club called the Winston-Salem city police for assistance, and Plouff was one of the responding officers.
The fights then moved outside into the parking lot. As the officers, including Plouff, made their way into the melee, gunshots rang out from the crowd. Plouff was hit once in the face.
A native of New York, Plouff was a police sergeant with the Winston-Salem Police Department for 17 1/2 years. In 2003 he was one four officers to receive the Medal of Valor, the police department’s highest honor, for helping... Subscribe to the Clemmons Courier, P.O. Box 765, Clemmons, NC 27012.