Bio & Incident Details
Age: 20
Tour: Not available
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 11/11/1899
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Three shot and killed
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Deputy Sheriff William Montgomery was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man wanted on a warrant for assault with a deadly weapon. Deputy Montgomery was accompanied to another deputy and two deputized civilians to a Navajo Indian campsite to arrest the man wanted on the warrant.
As the other deputy attempted to arrest the suspect the other Indians began to fire shots and Deputy Montgomery was shot and killed. The other sheriff and one of the deputized civilians were also shot, but survived.
Deputy Montgomery was killed on the day after his 20th birthday.
