Border Patrol Inspector Norman G. Ross
United States Department of Justice - Border Patrol
U.S. Government

End of Watch: Friday, February 10, 1928
Cause: Gunfire

Biographical Info
Age: 26
Tour of Duty: 1 year
Badge Number: Not available

Inspector Ross was shot and killed while transporting two suspect illegal aliens near Kane Springs, California. He was transporting the two in their own vehicle. The suspects had a hidden revolver in the vehicle which they used to shoot Inspector Ross in the head with.

The suspects fled to Mexico where one of the men was shot and killed by a member of the Mexican Rural Police.

Inspector Ross had been with the agency for one year.

 
Photograph: Border Patrol Inspector Norman G. Ross

Patch image: United States Department of Justice - Border Patrol, U.S. Government

Visit Border Patrol Inspector Ross's memorial at www.ODMP.org