Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: 3 months
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 6/4/1861
Weapon: Shotgun
Suspect: Never apprehended
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Sheriff Harris was shot and killed by a schoolteacher. After arrested the nephew of the former county sheriff, who had resigned to join the Confederate Army, a schoolteacher shot Sheriff Harris with a shotgun. He died two days later from his wound. The suspect fled the county and was never apprehended.
Sheriff Harris had been with the agency for three months.
