Bio & Incident Details
Age: 45
Tour: 20 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Location: California
Incident Date: 7/14/1965
Weapon: Shotgun; 12 gauge
Suspect: Sentenced to prison
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Special Agent Brice Woody succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained nine days earlier when he was shot by a teenage suspect while investigating a rock throwing incident involving a Southern Pacific train in Oakland, California.
Agent Woody went to a nearby residence to question the 16-year-old. The youth had been drinking and cursed at Agent Woody before producing a 12-gauge shotgun and shooting him in the stomach.
The suspect fled the scene but was arrested a short time later by members of the Oakland Police Department. He was convicted of Agent Woody's murder and sentenced to a maximum security juvenile detention center.
Agent Woody was a WWII veteran and had served with the Southern Pacific Railroad Police for 20 years. He was survived by his wife, daughter, and three siblings.
