Bio & Incident Details
Age: 34
Tour: 1 year
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 12/23/1880
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Executed
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Chief Hayes was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a suspect. He had been summoned by the suspect's father who had asked Chief Hayes to arrest the man for discharging a pistol in a saloon. When Chief Hayes located the suspect a struggle ensued and Chief Hayes was shot in the stomach. He succumbed to his injuries four days later. The suspect was found guilty and executed in 1882.
Chief Hayes became the first police chief of Ansonia when the police department was created earlier in the same year.
