SIDNEY LELAND HOUGHTON
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Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 58-W: 9
Department: Daviess County, Missouri, S.D.
End of Watch: September 11, 1977
Cause: SHOT
Age: 65
Years of Service: 12
Description: Sheriff Houghton was shot and killed by a juvenile he had just transported home after the boy crashed his car into a ditch. When the sheriff dropped him off, the boy went into the house, obtained a .22 caliber Derringer, and shot Sheriff Houghton three times.
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