RUSSELL SNOW MASTERS

Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 10-W: 2
Department: Pickens County, South Carolina, S.D.
End of Watch: January 1, 1954
Cause: SHOT
Age: 45
Years of Service: 9
Description: Deputy Sheriff Masters was accidentally shot by the young daughter of a friend. Deputy Masters was conducting a larceny investigation when he stopped by a friend's home. The friend showed Deputy Masters a modified gun. The friend's daughter came into the room, picked up the gun and pulled the trigger. Deputy Masters was shot in the chest and died at the scene.
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