WILLIAM E PATTERSON

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Officer Rank: Deputy City Marshal
Memorial Panel: 64-W: 24
Department: Beaumont, Texas, P.D.
End of Watch: September 25, 1881
Cause: SHOT
Age: 33
Years of Service: 8
Description: Deputy Patterson responded to a disturbance call where windows at a local church were broken. The three suspects were still on the scene when Deputy Patterson arrived. While attempting to arrest the suspects, one of them produced a weapon and shot Deputy Patterson in the abdomen. Deputy Patterson died of his injuries the next day.
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