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| Guard Lawrence Keating
United States Department of Justice - Marshals Service
U.S. Government
End of Watch: Friday, July 26, 1895 Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Friday, July 26, 1895
Incident Location: Arkansas
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Hanged in 1896 Guard Keating was shot and killed during a shootout at Fort Smith, Arkansas. A prisoner at the location, who was in custody for the 1892 murder of Deputy Marshal Floyd Wilson, in Indian Territory, assisted authorities with talking Guard Keating's murderer to surrender. As a result the suspect was pardoned for Deputy Marshal Wilson's murder. After being pardoned the suspect continued to rob banks and was shot and killed during a bank robbery in Arkansas in 1921.
The prisoner who murdered Guard Keating was in prison for the June 17, 1894, murder of Deputy Sequoyah Houston, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The prisoner who murdered Guard Keating was hanged on March 17, 1896. Related Line of Duty Deaths | |
