Officer Thomas E. Wright, a 36-year-old member of the Decatur Police Department in Alabama, succumbed to a gunshot wound on March 27, 1930. The incident occurred when Officer Wright and his partner, Officer Wade Moore, stopped a vehicle for disregarding a stop sign near the Bee Line Highway.
The driver of the vehicle, a former probate judge from Madison County named Thomas Skeggs, who was also running for a seat in the state legislature at the time, shot Officer Wright in the side with
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