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| Officer William C. Shull
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California
End of Watch: Thursday, July 23, 1970 Biographical Info
Age: 40
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Stabbed
Date of Incident: Thursday, July 23, 1970
Weapon Used: Edged weapon; Shank
Suspect Info: Not available Officer Shull was beaten and stabbed to death at Soledad Prison by inmates in retaliation for the deaths of three inmates the previous year. Officer Shull was stabbed more than forty times with a metal file which had been sharpened into a shank.
Officer John Mills was beaten to death on January 16, 1970, in retaliation for the same three deaths.
On July 21, 1971, Officer Leo Davis was stabbed to death at the San Quentin State Prison while guarding a prisoner who was a witness to Officer Shull's murder. Three inmates were attempting to gain access to the prisoner's hospital cell to murder him and attacked Officer Davis in an attempted to get his keys. Related Line of Duty Deaths  | Officer John V. Mills
California Department of Corrections an..., CA
EOW: Friday, January 16, 1970
Cause of Death: Assault |
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