Reserve Officer Louis S. Wells, Joplin Police Department, Missouri

Reserve Officer Louis S. Wells

Joplin Police Department, Missouri

End of Watch Saturday, June 3, 1916

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Louis S. Wells

Reserve Officer Louis Wells was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a man for carrying a concealed weapon.

Officer Wells had stopped the man on North Main Street, a half-mile north of the bridge over the Kansas City Southern Railroad tracks.

The man was apprehended, convicted of second-degree murder, and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. On November 22nd, 1916, he escaped from the penitentiary. On May 27th, 1917, he was shot and killed in a gunfight with police in Greenville, Mississippi.

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Age 32
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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Weapon Gun; Unknown type
Offender Shot and killed in 1917

suspicious person

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Time may have passed but you are not forgotten. I believe as long as someone remembers you or speaks your name, you are still with us.
Thank you for your heroism.
GOD Bless

Detention Officer A.Zambito
Texas

June 3, 2015