Bio & Incident Details
Age: Not available
Tour: 10 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Location: Arkansas
Incident Date: 7/26/1895
Weapon: Handgun; .44 caliber
Suspect: Hanged in 1896
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Guard Lawrence 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.
Guard Keating had served with the agency for 10 years and was survived by his wife and four children.
Related Line of Duty Deaths
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Deputy Sheriff Sequoyah Houstan |
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Deputy Marshal Floyd Wilson |
