JASON EDWARD DAUGHERTY

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Officer Rank: Undersheriff
Memorial Panel: 43-W: 27
Department: McClain County, Oklahoma, S.O.
End of Watch: July 18, 1925
Cause: NIFE
Age: 47
Years of Service: 6
Description: Undersheriff Daugherty was stabbed while assisting the city marshal subdue a suspect who had run amuck. The suspect stabbed Undersheriff Daugherty twice with a concealed knife. Sheriff John Ratliff came to his aid and shot the suspect several times but was overpowered himself. The suspect gained control of the Sheriff's revolver and fatally shot Sheriff Ratliff with his own gun (26-E: 17). The suspect died the next day. Undersheriff Daugherty died of his injuries two months later.
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