Bio & Incident Details
Age: 37
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Military veteran
Cause: Gunfire
Weapon: Handgun
Offender: Shot and killed
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Deputy Sheriff Liberty Turner was shot and killed while attempting to arrest two people were playing an illegal dice game on the roadway in Boody, Virginia, near the Dickenson County - Wise County border.
One of the men who he was attempting to arrest was a childhood friend. The man pulled out a handgun and the two exchanged shots. Deputy Turner and the other subject were both killed.
Deputy Turner was a U.S. Army veteran of WWI.
