Bio & Incident Details
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Tour: Not available
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Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 11/6/1902
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Shot and killed
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Deputy Amos Howell succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted two weeks earlier while attempting to arrest a man for murdering his father. He was fatally wounded when the suspect opened fire. The supect's cousin who was with him when he killed Deputy Howell was taken into custody.
The shooter fled to Wyoming, where he was eventually apprehended in August 1903 and extradited back to North Carolina. A few weeks later he escaped from the Caldwell County jail and fled into the nearby mountains. On April 22, 1904, he was shot and killed by a Watauga County deputy sheriff.
