On the evening of August 16, 1979, Deputy City Marshal Charles H. Baker, aged 52, was fatally shot in the 10200 block of Silvercrest Street in Houston, Texas. Baker, a four-year veteran of the Houston City Marshal's Office, was killed during a struggle with a man he had stopped to serve a misdemeanor traffic warrant. Unbeknownst to Baker and his partner, R.A. McCammon, the man they stopped had just robbed a nearby lounge.
The incident began when Baker and McCammon, both in uniform, spotte
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