Charles Lee Herron (born April 21, 1937)[1][2] was an American criminal who featured on the FBI Top Ten Wanted list.

In January 1968, while racial tensions in Nashville, Tennessee were strenuous, he shot and killed two police officers.

Officer Thomas Johnson died instantly from a 30-30 rifle, while officer Charles Thomasson died three months later from his wounds after they were called to investigate five black men parked in a dead end street.

[6][7] He was arrested alongside one of the five accomplices, William Garrin Allen, who was also on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list.

[8] Herron was subsequently interrogated and he told officers he had actually been arrested in 1975 for a fake license in Atlanta, Georgia, but was not recognized.