Bio & Incident Details
Age: 38
Tour: Not available
Badge # 6-1
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 11/4/1938
Weapon: Handgun; .45 caliber
Suspect: Committed suicide
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Sheriff Leland Fry succumbed to a gunshot wound received the previous day in Garrison, Iowa, where he had gone to arrest a man. During the arrest the suspect shot Sheriff Fry in the abdomen. The suspect then committed suicide.
Sheriff Fry had served as sheriff for nearly three years and was survived by his wife, Hazel, and their children, Dale and Shirley.
