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Lowell Clayton Tribble

Case from Farmers-branch, TX dated Aug 27, 1983

Victim Details

Lowell Clayton Tribble

Male

White / Caucasian

Farmers-branch

TX

1983-08-27

37

Lowell

Clayton Tribble

07/19/2026

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Lowell Clayton Tribble, a 37-year-old male officer with the Farmers Branch Police Department, tragically lost his life on August 27, 1983. Tribble was shot and killed in an ambush while on patrol. He was driving through an apartment complex on Villa Creek Drive in a marked patrol car when a man opened fire on him. Four shots were fired, with one striking his left temple. Responding officers found his crashed patrol car in a drainage ditch. Two men were seen running from the complex after the sho ...
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