Bio & Incident Details
Age: 30
Tour: Not available
Badge # 128
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 5/6/1929
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Executed in 1929
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Officer Grubbs was shot and mortally wounded while searching two robbery suspects for concealed weapons at the corner of East Market Street and Johns Avenue at 7:10 PM. Officer Grubbs died in the hospital four days later.
The suspect who killed Office Grubbs was arrested three weeks later. He was convicted of Officer Grubbs' murder and executed in the electric chair on November 1, 1929.
