Bio & Incident Details
Age: 48
Tour: 9 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 2/13/1949
Weapon: Edged weapon; Knife
Suspect: Sentenced to 99 years
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Night Marshal Gonzales was killed when a man he had escorted home rather than arrest for disturbing the peace snuck into the stationhouse and stabbed Marshal Gonzales in the neck. The suspect was disarmed and arrested by a Deputy Marshal at the scene. The suspects was able to escape but was recaptured. The suspect was sentenced to 99 years in prison but was released after 10 years because he developed cancer. The suspect died soon after.
Marshal Gonzales was had been in law enforcement for nine years, 13 days of which was with the Guadalupe County Sheriff's Department. He was survived by his wife, two daughters and a son.
