ALBERT EDWIN COOKE
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Officer Rank: Chief Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 31-W: 2
Department: Waller County, Texas, S.D.
End of Watch: April 18, 1975
Cause: SHOT
Age: 39
Years of Service: 7
Description: Chief Deputy Cooke was shot and killed with his own service weapon while transporting a prisoner to the county jail. The juvenile suspect had just been arrested for burglarizing a local gas station. The suspect was able to gain control of Chief Deputy Cooke's service revolver and shot him in the head six times. His body was found about two miles outside of town. The suspect was arrested by Texas Rangers a short time later.
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