FIDEL AGUIRRE

Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 47-W: 11
Department: Huerfano County, Colorado, S.D.
End of Watch: May 15, 1938
Cause: BEAT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: 4
Description: Deputy Sheriff Aguirre was patrolling at a dance when two brothers created a false disturbance to lure him outside. Deputy Aguirre was beaten with a fence post and died several hours later of a fractured skull. Deputy Aguirre had arrested the brothers for cattle rustling one year prior. Both suspects were convicted of first degree murder.
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