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| Undersheriff Charles A. Cavanagh
St. Clair County Sheriff's Department
Michigan
End of Watch: Friday, March 16, 1934 Biographical Info
Age: 47
Tour of Duty: 22 years
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Friday, March 16, 1934
Weapon Used: Handgun
Suspect Info: Shot and killed Undersheriff Cavanagh was shot and killed after responding to a call about a man brandishing a handgun in a grocery store. When he arrived on the scene the two exchanged shots and both Undersheriff Cavanagh and the suspect were killed. The suspect had escaped from an Indiana jail with John Dillinger 13 days earlier.
Undersheriff Cavanagh had served in law enforcement for 22 years. He was survived by his wife and child.
Led by John Dillinger, the Dillinger Gang was a notorius group of mid-west bank robbers. Assocaties of the gant were responsible for the fatal shootings of 13 law enforcement officers in 1933 and 1934.
Two infamous members of the gang, John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson, were shot and killed by law enforcement officers in separate incidents.
The other gang members were either murdered by criminals, shot and killed by law enforcement officers, executed for their crimes, or sentenced to time in prison. Related Line of Duty Deaths  | Sheriff Jess L. Sarber
Allen County Sheriff's Department, OH
EOW: Thursday, October 12, 1933
Cause of Death: Gunfire |
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