Shreveport Police Department, Louisiana
End of Watch: Friday, March 1, 1912
Age: 35
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: March 1, 1912
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Charges dismissed
Patrolman Porter Sanders was shot to death by a man he was attempting to arrest. Two days later the suspect was shot by the station agent in Stonewall when he refused to surrender, but managed to escape. In January of 1914 he was apprehended in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. A year later a grand jury was convinced the suspect was mentally unbalanced and he had confessed to a murder he did not commit. He was released.
Patrolman Sanders was survived by his wife and five children.