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Deputy Sheriff

Lathe Warren

Bell County Sheriff's Department — Pineville, KY
Felonious
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End of Watch September 18, 1952
Age 46
The Vigil Panel 88 ›
Gender Male
Incident Service The Sacrifice Memorials 1 Department 25

Incident

Deputy Sheriff Lathe Warren was shot and killed when he responded to a disturbance call at the Log Mountain Cafe, one mile south of Pineville. A 19-year-old man was cursing employees and brandishing a pistol after being refused whiskey. As Deputy Warren arrived on the scene the suspect shot him in the knee and then through his neck. Deputy Warren returned fire killing the suspect. The suspect was the son of the man who was acquitted of murdering Chief Ambrose Metcalfe, the only police chief of the Harlan County Police Department on April 17, 1949. The Harlan County Police Department closed after his murder because no one would take his place.

Survivors

Deputy Warren was survived by eight children.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Sheriff Warren served with the Bell County Sheriff's Department.
Thank you for your service to the Pineville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Warren.

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

Agency

Department Bell County Sheriff's Department
Type Sheriff's Office
Location Pineville, Bell County, KY
Platform Identity bcso.bell.ky.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 18, 1952
Age 46
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Handgun

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Lathe is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,551 remembered there.

34,117 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 1952, 71 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 100th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Lathe was 46. Of the 14,220 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

September holds 9.1% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Thursdays: 14%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,551 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was handgun, in 23.4% of these deaths.

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His people

Bell County Sheriff's Department has 26 officers remembered here, Lathe among them.

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Where

Deputy Sheriff Lathe Warren

Bell County Sheriff's Department · End of Watch September 18, 1952

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 50-E

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