Bruce Thompson Brown, a 25-year-old White male, served as a West Virginia State Trooper for less than a year before his life was tragically cut short on October 14, 1977. Originally from Charles Town, West Virginia, he was stationed in Tucker County, where the fatal encounter unfolded not on a lonely highway or during a dangerous pursuit, but within the confines of the county jail. The events of that day would become what a later Tucker County Sheriff would describe as “arguably the most notor
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