Robert Glen Owen

Death by Force

Corporal Robert Glen Owen, aged 40, was a dedicated officer with the Erie Police Department in Pennsylvania. On the night of December 28, 1980, he was shot and killed while on duty behind a warehouse on West 18th Street near Cranberry Street. His body was discovered early the next morning, December 29, 1980, with a single bullet wound to the chest. The murder weapon was identified as his own service revolver, a Colt Trooper Mark III .357, although it was not immediately found at the scene.
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