Special Deputy Sheriff Allen Dean

Allen Dean

Special Deputy Sheriff Allen Dean was shot and fatally wounded, and Special Deputy Charles Watson was shot and killed in a gun battle with two moonshiners at the Culberson Bridge on the Nottely River.

A third deputy was seriously wounded, and Deputy Dean died two days later.

The suspects, thought to have been shot and seriously wounded, escaped. The men were apprehended in Texas six months later. Both were convicted of second-degree murder. One suspect was sentenced to seven years and the other to six years.

Special Deputy Sheriff Dean was survived by his wife, three daughters, and five sons.