Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: 2 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 11/28/1861
Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife
Suspect: Shot and killed
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Sheriff Blackburn was stabbed to death while attempting to arrest a murder suspect wanted in California. The Sheriff and the suspect had argued earlier in the day and then met later that night in a saloon. As Sheriff Blackburn attempted to take the man into custody he was stabbed several times in the chest with a bowie knife. The suspect escaped but was later shot and killed by another person who he had threatened to kill the previous night.
Sheriff Blackburn had been with the agency for two years and was survived by his wife and child.
