FRANCIS E RIGGS
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Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 17-W: 7
Department: Puerto Rico, P.D.
End of Watch: February 23, 1936
Cause: SHOT
Age: Unk
Years of Service: 3
Description: Chief Riggs was shot and killed as he left church by a group of nationalists reportedly in retaliation for the deaths of two of their members by police. Chief Rigg's assailants were tried and found guilty, not of murder, but for attempting to overthrow the US government.
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