JACOB F GREEN

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Officer Rank: Special Agent
Memorial Panel: 16-W: 12
Department: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives
End of Watch: April 1, 1921
Cause: SHOT
Age: 37
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Special Agent Green and Town Marshal William Dunnam were fatally shot during the raid of a moonshine still in Richton, Mississippi. One suspect was convicted of murder and sentenced to death but committed suicide just before he was scheduled to be hung in the gallows. A second suspect was also convicted of murder and sentenced to be executed by hanging. That suspect attempted to escape with a smuggled handgun and fatally shot Jailer Russell Harris who gained control of the gun and fatally shot the suspect.
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