LEON GEORGE
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Officer Rank: Detective
Memorial Panel: 9-W: 10
Department: Wilmington, North Carolina, P.D.
End of Watch: July 29, 1924
Cause: SHOT
Age: 59
Years of Service: 25
Description: Detective Leon George and Deputy Marshal Samuel Lilly were shot and killed while attempting to serve an arrest for illegal bootlegging near Wilmington, North Carolina. The deputies had stopped in a swamp near Wilmington when they were ambushed and shot with rifles and handguns at close range in their automobile. The deputies and a police dog were killed instantly in the incident. Possemen succeeded in arresting the three leaders of the boot-legging operation in connection to the murder.
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