Source: Jay Price, WUNC, 11/27/20


James Hamilton's life was so entwined with the community in Spindale, N.C. - population 4,200 - that he figured the hour-plus commute to his job as campus police officer at UNC-Asheville was a small price to pay. He was a town commissioner and a deacon at his church. He coached youth basketball and football. And his wife Sophia said he still somehow found time to mow the grass at the church and at friends' and neighbors' homes.

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