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Glenn Sturgill

Case from Ashland, OH dated Aug 02, 1982

Victim Details

Glenn M. Sturgill

Male

White / Caucasian

Ashland

OH

1982-08-02

30

Glenn

Sturgill

07/08/2026

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Detective Sergeant Glenn M. Sturgill, age 30, of the Ashland County Sheriff's Office in Ohio, was shot and killed on August 2, 1982, while attempting to arrest three armed robbery suspects. Sturgill had observed the suspects attempting to rob a woman at gunpoint on Claremont Avenue and pursued one of the men into a cornfield behind McDonald's restaurant. While taking the suspect into custody, he was ambushed by another suspect hiding behind a trash dumpster and shot in the right-lower side, caus ...
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