JOSEPH MCKINNEY

Officer Rank: Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 3-W: 2
Department: Sacramento County, California, S.O.
End of Watch: August 15, 1850
Cause: SHOT
Age: 21
Years of Service: 1
Description: Sheriff McKinney and another officer ordered armed squatters to lay down their weapons. The squatters instead shot at the officers and killed Sheriff McKinney.
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