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| Seven officers to be added to memorial |
| By muskogeephoenix.com |
| Published: 05/07/2014 |
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Two hundred and eighty-six names were recently engraved on the National Law Enforcement Officer’s Memorial in Washington, D.C. The names will be dedicated during the annual Candle Light Vigil on Tuesday evening. Seven of those listed are law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty in Oklahoma Those seven officers from Oklahoma are: George Smith, Deputy Sheriff of Grant County who was shot and killed the evening of May 26, 1901, as he happened upon a fight between two men. One man dropped his gun. As deputy Smith bent over to retrieve it he was shot by the other man. His killer was lynched that evening. L. C. Hughes, City Marshal of Mills Creek in Johnston County who died just after midnight Nov. 20, 1904, when his deputy’s gun fell from its holster, discharged and struck Hughes in the stomach. Read More. |
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