Raymond E. Welch
Raymond E. Welch
Ray Welch with a getaway car, with bullet holes, used by a pair of robbery suspects in a shootout with the Elgin PD.
ELGIN — Raymond Welch, a former Elgin police officer involved in a late-1950s robbery-shootout case that lives on in departmental lore, was laid to rest Tuesday at Bluff City Cemetery. Welch, 93, died at his Elgin home Friday. Elgin police Detective Brian Lawrence, who serves …