RICHARD O RIGGS

RICHARD O RIGGS Update officers information and/or submit photo of officer
Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 47-W: 17
Department: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, P.D.
End of Watch: January 7, 1986
Cause: SHOT
Age: 32
Years of Service: 8
Description: Officer Riggs spotted a van at a service station that matched the description of one used in an armed robbery earlier that night. As Officer Riggs approached the driver, he was shot in the chest and the abdomen with a .38-caliber gun. His assailant was convicted of murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection on April 27, 2000.
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