VESS ARP

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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 4-E: 27
Department: Corsicana, Texas, P.D.
End of Watch: January 10, 1924
Cause: SHOT
Age: 25
Years of Service: 7
Description: Police Officer Arp was fatally wounded when he and a fellow officer went to the home of a suspect to investigate a robbery. Officer Arp knocked on the front door and identified himself as a lawman to the wife of the suspect. The woman responded by shooting Officer Arp in the abdomen with a .38 revolver. Officer Arp was transported to the hospital where he died of his injuries six days later. His assailant was arrested.
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