JEFF C COUCH

Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 37-E: 22
Department: Fort Worth, Texas, P.D.
End of Watch: December 20, 1920
Cause: SHOT
Age: 25
Years of Service: 2
Description: Disturbance call. While walking his beat, Patrolman Couch responded to shots fired in the vicinity. He attempted to place two feuding men under arrest. One of the men produced an automatic pistol and shot Jeff Couch twice in the heart and left arm and once each in the stomach and left thigh. He died instantly. His assailant was arrested and later lynched by a masked gang.
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