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Orrin Reed

Case from Kansas-city, MO dated Jun 17, 1933

Victim Details

Orrin H. Ott Reed

Male

White / Caucasian

Kansas-city

MO

1933-06-17

48

Orrin

Reed

07/29/2026

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In the summer of 1933, a tragic event unfolded at the Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri, that would become known as the Kansas City Massacre. On June 17th of that year, Orrin Henry 'Ott' Reed, the 48-year-old White/Caucasian Chief of Police from McAlester, Oklahoma, found himself in the midst of a violent shootout. Reed was part of a group of law enforcement officers escorting a captured fugitive, Frank Nash, to the U.S. Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas.

The transfer of Nash had b ...
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