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| Police Officer Joseph C. Flanders
Swainsboro Police Department
Georgia
End of Watch: Friday, July 18, 1902 Biographical Info
Age: 31
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Friday, July 18, 1902
Weapon Used: Rifle; Winchester
Suspect Info: Shot and killed Officer Flanders was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a murder suspect. When he ordered the man to come down off his wagon he raised a rifle and shot Officer Flanders once killing him instantly.
The suspect fled to South Carolina where he shot and killed Deputy Sheriff Chester Ahl, of the Aiken County Sheriff's Department, five days later.
The suspect was shot and killed by two deputy sheriffs in Andalusia, Alabama on March 5, 1903. Related Line of Duty Deaths | |
