Bio & Incident Details
Age: 26
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 7/13/1932
Weapon: Shotgun
Suspect: Executed in 1933
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Deputy Sheriff Stanley Helton was shot and mortally wounded and Deputy Sheriff Marion Stapleton was shot and killed by a man wanted for the murder of a local farmer the previous day.
The suspect, known throughout the area as Bad Bill, opened fire with a shotgun as the deputies approached. Deputy Stapleton was killed instantly. Deputy Helton, struck in the chest, succumbed to his wounds 12 days later. A third deputy was slightly wounded.
The suspect fled into the mountains, but surrendered to a posse five days later. He was sentenced to death for Deputy Helton's murder and executed in the electric chair November 3, 1933.
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