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Deputy Sheriff Daniel Curtis Ahl of the Aiken County Sheriff's Office in South Carolina was tragically killed on July 22, 1902. He was shot while riding with a posse attempting to arrest a suspect who had murdered Officer Joseph Flanders of the Swainsboro Police Department in Georgia just four days earlier. The posse located the suspect in his mother's yard, and as Deputy Ahl approached on horseback, the suspect stepped aside and shot him in the back. The suspect managed to escape the scene and ...Read More
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Daniel Curtis Ahl
Male
Aiken
SC
1902-07-22
Daniel
Curtis Ahl
11/14/2025
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I've been thinking a lot about the challenges law enforcement faced back in the early 1900s, especia... ...Read More
12/05/2024
12/05/2024
I was reading about Deputy Sheriff Daniel Curtis Ahl's story, and it got me thinking about how diffe... ...Read More
08/22/2023
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