C WALTER RINKER
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Officer Rank: Corrections Employee
Memorial Panel: 33-W: 9
Department: Colorado Department of Corrections
End of Watch: October 3, 1929
Cause: SHOT
Age: 62
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Raymond Brown, John J. Eeles, Elmer G. Erwin, John W. McClelland, Walter Rinker, Charles G. Shepherd, Robert Wiggins, Myron H. Goodwin were all killed in a deadly riot at the Colorado State Penitentiary. This incident was preceded earlier that summer by a series of riots in two New York prisons and the Federal Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas. Large sections of the prison were destroyed by fire. It is estimated that over 2,000 rounds of ammunition were fired during the melee. Walter Rinker was on guard duty on the roof of the administration building at the time of the riot when he was fatally shot in the back.
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