Birmingham Police Department, Alabama
End of Watch: Friday, February 8, 1935
Age:
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: January 30, 1935
Weapon Used: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect Info: Executed in 1936
Officer Harris succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained one week earlier in an exchange of gunfire with robbery suspects in a local nightclub.
Both suspects were sentenced to death. One of them committed suicide while on death row. The second suspect was executed on June 12, 1936.