Thomas M. Jones, a male city marshal in DeWitt, Arkansas, sat down to dinner with his family on March 3, 1921, in what should have been an ordinary, quiet evening at home. Instead, it became the moment his life ended. As he ate with his loved ones, an unseen assailant fired on him in an ambush inside his own house, fatally wounding him and turning the family supper table into the scene of a targeted killing. Contemporary accounts describe his death as an off-duty, at-home ambush carried out with
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