JOSEPH WILSON DAVIS
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Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 30-W: 16
Department: Ansted, West Virginia, P.D.
End of Watch: February 27, 1934
Cause: SHOT
Age: 58
Years of Service: 3
Description: Chief of Police Davis was ambushed and shot in an act of revenge by the brother of a man Chief Davis had fatally shot in self-defense the previous year. Chief Davis died of his injuries the next day. The brother was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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