W B PHARES
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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 58-W: 1
Department: Houston, Texas, P.D.
End of Watch: September 30, 1930
Cause: SHOT
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Description: Officer Phares and his partner, Officer Fitzgerald, were shot and killed by one of two men as they approached them to question them about a hold-up that happened at a furniture store minutes earlier. The suspects were apprehended a short time later. The gunman was sentenced to death and executed in the electric chair on November 28, 1930.
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