| Patrolman A. L. White
Memphis Police Department
Tennessee
End of Watch: Sunday, April 13, 1919 Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: 57 Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Sunday, April 13, 1919
Weapon Used: Handgun
Suspect Info: Never apprehended Patrolman White was shot and killed while investigating a report of a stolen bicycle. Patrolman White and his partner were sent to a drug store at 1669 Lamar Street to investigate the theft. The store owner told the officer that he had spotted a man riding a bicycle that was stolen from his store three weeks earlier. When the Patrolmen questioned the suspect, he told them he had bought the bicycle from another man who lived outside the Parkway on Pigeon Roost Road where it intersects Deadricks road.
When the Patrolman arrived at the house Patrolman White entered through the back door while his partner covered the front door. Patrolman White found the suspect seated in the kitchen eating supper. The suspect pulled a automatic pistol from his belt and killed Patrolman White.
The suspect then fled out the back door, across a field and vanished. Local residents told the police that the suspect had often bragged of killing a aatrolman in the Preferencia Cafe on Main Street a year earlier. The officer later found that the suspect closely fit the description of the suspect who killed Patrolman Edward Broadfoot in February of 1918. Related Line of Duty Deaths | 
