Officer Raymond Messer
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
California

End of Watch: Saturday, August 11, 1951
Cause: Stabbed

Biographical Info
Age: 47
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available

Officer Messer was stabbed to death at the Vocational Institution at Lancaster. Officer Messer was making bed checks when he discovered one of the inmates in possession of weapons. He was was stabbed when he ordered the man to hand over the weapons.

 
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Patch image: California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, California

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