Bio & Incident Details
Age: 59
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 6/2/1943
Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife
Suspect: Shot and killed
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Watchman Blackwell succumbed to stab wounds received three days earlier while attempting to arrest a man who had threatened a woman with a knife. When Watchman Blackwell approached the man he was attacked and stabbed in the neck, chest and abdomen. Although wounded, he was able to draw his weapon and fatally shoot the suspect. Watchman Blackwell was taken to Coolidge Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds three days later.
Watchman Blackwell worked for the Pinal County Sheriff's Department and served as the Night Watchman for the town of Coolidge.
