LELAND E ROPER
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 4-E: 24
Department: Fayette County, Tennessee, S.O.
End of Watch: July 22, 1949
Cause: SHOT
Age: 62
Years of Service:
Description: Deputies Roper and GC Graves were making a routine check of the picnic grounds when they were fired upon by a man who was hiding behind a parked car. Deputy Roper was struck four times and died at the scene.
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