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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 ...Read More
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 ...Read More
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Thomas E Wright
Male
White / Caucasian
Decatur
AL
1930-03-27
36
Thomas
E Wright
Primary Suspect Deceased
11/15/2025
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I've been reading up on the tragic case of Officer Thomas E. Wright and something that caught my att... ...Read More
11/16/2024
11/16/2024
I was reading about the tragic incident involving Officer Thomas E. Wright, and one thing that struc... ...Read More
04/14/2024
04/14/2024
