Bio & Incident Details
Age: 38
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 5/5/1929
Weapon: Officer's handgun
Suspect: Not available
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Deputy Pete Pescatore succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained nine days earlier while attempting to quell a disturbance at Leckie.
Deputy Pescatore, who also owned a service station in Anawalt, had gone to Leckie on a business trip when he was informed that a group of men were drinking and causing a disturbance. He went to the location to tell them to quiet down and disperse but was attacked by the group.
One of the men disarmed him and then shot him in the abdomen, inflicting a fatal wound. He was transported to a hospital in Welch where he remained until succumbing to the wound nine days later.
Deputy Pescatore was survived by his wife and five children. He was buried in Pocahontas, Virginia.
