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Photograph: Officer Richard Rivers

Patch image: Indianapolis Police Department, Indiana






Officer Richard Rivers
Indianapolis Police Department
Indiana

End of Watch: Monday, April 27, 1936

Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: 455

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Monday, April 27, 1936
Weapon Used: Rifle; Machine gun
Suspect Info: Executed in 1938

Officer Richard Rivers was shot and killed by members of the Brady Gang who had gone to a doctor's house to have a companion's gunshot wounds treated. Officers went to the home of the doctor in response to a report that a man at that address had suffered a gunshot wound. Officer Rivers was gunned down in a hail of machine gun fire upon their arrival.

The gang members all fled the scene and two were captured a year later. Another suspect was convicted of bank robbery and the murder of Trooper Paul Minneman of the Indiana State Police on May 27, 1937 under federal law and sentenced to death. On November 18, 1938, he was executed by electrocution at the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City.

Although never proven, the Brady Gang was also suspected of murdering Officer Frank Levy of the Anderson Police Department on November 25, 1935.

Related Line of Duty Deaths
Patch image: Indianapolis Police Department, IndianaPatrol Officer Frank M. Levy
Anderson Police Department, IN
EOW: Monday, November 25, 1935
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Indianapolis Police Department, IndianaTrooper Paul Vincent Minneman
Indiana State Police, IN
EOW: Thursday, May 27, 1937
Cause of Death: Gunfire

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