Bio & Incident Details
Age: 36
Tour: Not available
Badge # 32
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 1/25/1995
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Sentenced to death
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Detective Whitten was shot and killed when he answered a knock at his back door at approximately 2100 hours. The suspect in a case that Detective Whitten was investigating hired two hit-men to murder him so that the suspect would not face any jail time. Detective Whitten survived long enough to identify the murderers. All parties involved where charged with murder.
Two of the suspects were sentenced to death and the third was sentenced to 25 years in prison. One of the suspects had his sentence reduce to life in prison in 2005 when the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitional to execute convicted murderers who committed their crimes as juveniles.
Detective Whitten was survived by his parents and brother.
