George Claud Holt Pickett

Pine Bluff Police Department — Pine Bluff, AR

Felonious

End of Watch April 28, 1901

Age 37

Tour of Duty

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

He was shot in the face when he and two officers approached two suspicious men at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Pine Street. As both suspects, who were brothers, fought a pistol duel with the three, one shot Patrolman Pickett in the face. His killer escaped. The other suspect was apprehended in Little Rock the next day. On November 8, 1901, he was sentenced to four years for his part in the murder. On June 29, 1902, he was one of 11 inmates who escaped from the stockade at Doyleton. In June of 1915 officials discovered a few days earlier, he was killed in a sawmill accident in Clyde, Mississippi. At the same time the suspect's father was jailed on a charge of bigamy. He said his son, Patrolman Pickett's killer, was alive and well but refused to say where he was.

Patrolman Pickett was killed on his first day as a patrolman for the Pine Bluff Police Department.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three children.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Patrolman Pickett served with the Pine Bluff Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Pine Bluff community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Pickett.

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

Agency

Department Pine Bluff Police Department

Location Pine Bluff, AR

Platform Identity pbpd.jefferson.ar.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 28, 1901

Tour of Duty

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Patrolman George Claud Holt Pickett is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In AR, 249 of 372 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.9% of this state's fallen. That is 12.7 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Pine Bluff Police Department, 5 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Pine Bluff Police Department

of 5 officers

100% Felonious

AR — Statewide

249

of 372 officers

66.9% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious