Officer Willie Bonner Phares
Houston Police Department
Texas
End of Watch: Tuesday, September 30, 1930
Cause: Gunfire

Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available

Officer Phares and Officer Edward Fitzgerald were shot and killed by one of two men as they approached their car to question them about a hold-up which had occurred minutes earlier at a furniture store. The suspects were captured a short time later.

The gunman was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair on November 28, 1930.