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Tenney Gatewood Jr.

Case from Whiteriver, AZ dated Dec 09, 1999

Victim Details

Tenney Gatewood, Jr.

Male

Native American

Whiteriver

AZ

1999-12-09

38

Tenney

Gatewood Jr.

06/22/2026

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On December 9, 1999, Officer Tenney Gatewood, Jr., a 38-year-old male member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, was shot and killed while on duty in the vicinity of Hawley Lake on the White Mountain Apache Tribe reservation. A dedicated officer with nine years of service to the White Mountain Apache Tribal Police, he was responding to a report of a burglary at a local store.

Officer Gatewood had stopped a vehicle he believed to be connected to the burglary. Inside were Frank Monte Banash ...
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