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Field Inspector

Horace Lorenzo "Hod" Roberson

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association — Fort Worth, TX

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch April 1, 1923

Age 48

The Vigil Panel 45 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 3

Incident

Field Inspector Horace Roberson and Field Inspector Dave Allison were shot and killed by two suspects that they were scheduled to testify against the following morning.

The inspectors were sitting in the lobby of a hotel in Seminole, Texas when the two suspected cattle thieves entered and immediately opened fire with a pistol and a shotgun. Inspector Allison was fatally wounded by a pistol shot and Inspector Roberson was fatally wounded by a shotgun blast.

Inspector Roberson's wife came downstairs and returned fire using her husband's backup pistol, wounding both suspects. The two men fled but were later apprehended. One of the suspects was sentenced to 55 years and the other was sentenced to 51 years.

Both men escaped from prison. One of them later committed suicide but the other was recaptured and eventually pardoned by the Texas governor.

Field Inspectors for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association are commissioned as Special Texas Rangers and posses full law enforcement authority.

Inspector Roberson was a U.S. Army veteran.

Thank you for your service to our country as a US Army veteran. Thank you for serving as a Field Inspector for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn. and serving as a lawman. May you rest in peace brother. God bless you for work.

Mike Barr-(Retired TSCRA Special Ranger) Retired-Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Assn. September 28th, 2023

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Field Inspector Roberson served with the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
Thank you for your service to the Fort Worth community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

Type Other

Location Fort Worth, TX

Platform Identity tscra.tarrant.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 1, 1923

Age 48

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Military Service

Horace Lorenzo "Hod" Roberson served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Field Inspector Horace Lorenzo "Hod" Roberson 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 97,756 officers honored here.

In TX, 1,460 of 2,421 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.3% of this state's fallen. That is 60.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, 4 of 4 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

of 4 officers

100% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,460

of 2,421 officers

60.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Felonious