CHARLES R GOUGENHEIM
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Officer Rank: Captain
Memorial Panel: 26-W: 9
Department: Houston, Texas, P.D.
End of Watch: April 30, 1955
Cause: SHOT
Age: 53
Years of Service: 14
Description: Captain Gougenheim and Officer Jack Beets were shot and killed in an act of retaliation by a drunken man who was angry at police for arresting his sister earlier that same day. The two officers had observed two other drunken men outside of a bar when they stopped to investigate. The man who shot them worked as a cook at the bar.
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