Richard W. O. Gammill served in the U.S. Air Force for 1 year and 2 months. Richard served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Lieutenant Richard Gammill succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained nine years earlier while investigating the shooting of a citizen at 3500 Rangeline Road. He had responded with other officers to a local hotel to check on a man who had reported being shot while driving on the interstate. When the first two officers arrived the man refused to cooperate. When Lieutenant Gammill arrived the man pulled out a handgun and shot the three officers before being shot and killed by return gunfire. Lieutenant Gammill served as a sergeant at the time of the shooting.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Gammill served with the Joplin Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Joplin community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Gammill.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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