Bio & Incident Details
Age: 31
Tour: 5 years
Badge # 849
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 6/29/1926
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Shot and killed
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Officer Webster Schumann and Clerk Thomas Dillon were shot and killed when they responded to reports of a former mental patient who had shot a men in the neck. When the officers arrived at the scene the man began shooting indiscriminately, wounding four citizens and five officers. Officer Schumann was able to return fire and killed the suspect.
Officer Schumann died the following day. Clerk Dillon, who's spinal column had been severed, died two weeks later.
Officer Schumann had been with the agency for five years. He was survived by his wife and daughter.
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