Deputy Sheriff W. H. Lucy, who served with the Shelby County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee, was tragically shot and killed on February 25, 1910. He was 53 years old at the time of his death. Deputy Lucy was shot in the head by a suspect whom he and two other deputies were attempting to arrest on a charge of larceny. The incident occurred at a farm three miles west of Germantown, Tennessee.
The suspect had asked permission to retrieve his hat from his cabin on the Bennett Farm, and the off
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