PERRY FROST

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Officer Rank: Detective
Memorial Panel: 23-W: 7
Department: East St. Louis, Illinois, P.D.
End of Watch: November 20, 1920
Cause: SHOT
Age: 45
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Description: Detective Frost was shot to death in a battle with three men who were holding up a dice game. Detective Frost and a fellow officer discovered the men holding up the game while investigating an earlier holdup in which the victim was killed. The suspects shot Detective Frost and fled with $3500. Two suspects were arrested in the case.
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