KRISTOPHER WILLIAM EGGLE
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Officer Rank: National Park Ranger
Memorial Panel: 11-E: 23
Department: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service
End of Watch: August 9, 2002
Cause: SHOT
Age: 28
Years of Service: 3
Description: Ranger Eggle was shot and killed while he and several U.S. Border Patrol Agents attempted to arrest two armed illegal aliens who had fled from Mexican authorities into Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona. While a Border Patrol helicopter directed the rangers to the suspects, one of the suspects resisted arrest and opened fire on the rangers, striking Ranger Eggle just below his vest. He was medivaced to a local hospital in Tucson, Arizona where he was pronounced dead.
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