Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Vehicular assault
Incident Date: 6/8/1966
Weapon: Automobile
Suspect: Killed in crash
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Sheriff Bing was killed in an automobile accident on Highway 41, near Beech Grove, caused when a mental patient he was transporting attacked him. Sheriff Bing, along with a deputy and a civilian, were transporting the man to the Central State Hospital, in Nashville, when the man suddenly reached over Sheriff Bing's shoulder and grabbed the steering wheel.
The vehicle flipped over, ejected the deputy and civilian, and trapping the patient and Sheriff Bing. The patient and Sheriff Bing both succumbed to their injuries.
