Correctional Officer Leo Davis
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California
End of Watch: Wednesday, July 21, 1971
Cause: Stabbed

Biographical Info
Age: 38
Tour of Duty: 5 years
Badge Number: Not available

Correctional Officer Davis was stabbed to death at San Quentin State Prison while guarding a prisoner who was a witness to the murder of Officer William Shull the previous year at Soledad Prison. Officer Davis was guarding the door to the prisoner's hospital cell when he was attacked and stabbed by three inmates who were attempting to gain access to the cell to murder the other prisoner.

Officer Shull was stabbed to death on July 23, 1970, and Officer John Mills was beaten to death on January 16, 1970, in retaliation for an earlier incident in which three prisoners were shot and killed during a courtyard riot.

Correctional Officer Davis was survived by his wife and four children.