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Sheriff Robert Mendum Tarr | Mohave County Sheriff's Office, Arizona Mohave County Sheriff's Office, Arizona

Sheriff

Robert Mendum Tarr

Mohave County Sheriff's Office, Arizona

End of Watch: Monday, October 21, 1963

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 52

Tour: Not available

Badge # Not available

Cause: Gunfire

Incident Date: 10/21/1963

Weapon: Handgun; .38 caliber

Suspect: Shot and killed by Sheriff Tarr

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Sheriff Robert Tarr was shot and killed at an agricultural inspection station near Kingman, Arizona.

Two men who had just been released from California and Arizona prisons had stolen a car in Long Beach and were stopped at the agricultural inspection station because they didn't have the paperwork for the car. The inspector called the sheriff and when he responded he asked one of the men to open the trunk and after doing so, the ex-convict drew the weapon and shot Sheriff Tarr as he began walking toward him. Sheriff Tarr instinctively drew and fired four times, hitting him twice.

Sheriff Tarr was survived by his wife and nine children.

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I have used this quote from Sheriff Tarr for over 30 years. The nature of your profession demands men of courage. In some degree, courage must be found in all men, but in policemen it must be found in a special degree. This is true not only in an occassional gun battle, it is necessary in a protracted surveillance; it is necessary every time a policeman walks up to a car which he has stopped, especially at night.

Courage begets courage---and one man with intestinal fortitude can set the ideal for a whole group. It has been my happy experience through quite a few years of close association with police officers to find the overwelming majority of them to be men who don't count the cost to themselve of doing their job. MAY THEIR TRIBE INCREASE

Rick Parfitt, Chief
Edison State College Department of Public Safety
March 8, 2012

 

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