In memory of

Charles E. Chitwood

1920

Killed that day
July 26, 1920, aged 37

Their life

Location: Oklahoma
Weapon: Handgun
Offender: Unknown

Special Officer Charles Chitwood was shot and killed in the rail yards between Cincinnati Avenue and Detroit Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He was shot when he caught a man stealing produce from a boxcar and attempted to arrest him. The subject jumped onto a passing train that was leaving the city. It is unknown whether he was ever captured.

Officer Chitwood was a U.S. Army veteran of WWI and served with the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Police Department for one year.

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