JOHN RED HORSE

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Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 13-E: 25
Department: Bureau of Indian Affairs
End of Watch: November 16, 1894
Cause: BEAT
Age: 35
Years of Service: 7
Description: Officer Red Horse responded to a disturbance call to break up a fight when an individual in the group attacked him with a club. Others joined in and they all beat Officer Red Horse to death. This incident occurred in the Village of Rushville, Nebraska. The suspects lived fifty miles away on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
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