EUGENE KING
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Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 15-E: 21
Department: Northville, Michigan, P.D.
End of Watch: March 11, 1976
Cause: SHOT
Age: 60
Years of Service: 20
Description: Chief King was transporting a bank robbery suspect to the station. En route, the suspect produced a hidden pistol. In the ensuing struggle for the weapon, Chief King was shot twice in the stomach. He died 11 years later from cirrhosis of the liver associated with hepatitis which he contracted during a blood transfusion while in surgery for his initial wound. The suspect served 6 1/2 years of a 30 year sentence.
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