Bio & Incident Details
Age: 32
Tour: 6 years
Badge # 122
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 1/29/1959
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Executed in 1960
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Trooper Barter was shot and killed after stopping a parolee at a disturbance call near Altus, Oklahoma. He asked the suspect about the gun the man had and was told it was for target practice. When Trooper Barter ordered the man to surrender the weapon he was shot in the chest. The suspect was later arrested and subsequently executed in 1960.
Trooper Barter had been with the Oklahoma Highway Patrol for six years.
