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OFFICER W. F. BYRD |
August 2, 1919 |
| Officer Byrd, who was a trooper in Mayor Walton's Mounted Police Unit, responded to gunshots from the rear of 509 N. Rhode Island. As Byrd rounded the corner of the house he was shot in the chest and mortally wounded. Byrd returned fire. The suspect was found just feet from the officer and died the next day from wounds sustained in the gunfight with Byrd. |
