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Incident
Sheriff Harvey Brown was killed when a bomb that was rigged to his front door exploded when he returned home at 2223 Fourth Street in Baker City at 10:30 p.m. He was transported to St Elizabeth Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries the next day at 3:15 p.m. Sheriff Brown had served as sheriff of the Baker County Sheriff's Department from 1902 to 1906. Although his murder has never been officially solved, one of the prevailing theories is that he was assassinated as a result of his role in the arrest and prosecution of a man who, on December 30, 1905, killed the former governor of Idaho with a bomb. Another theory is that he was killed for revenge by local gamblers as a result of his efforts to stop illegal gambling while serving as sheriff.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and daughter.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Sheriff Brown gave the Baker County Sheriff's Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Baker City community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sheriff Brown.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Sheriff Harvey K. Brown is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In OR, 115 of 197 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 58.4% of this state's fallen. That is 58.4 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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