JOHN F SAXTON
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Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 43-W: 16
Department: Cleveland, Ohio, P.D.
End of Watch: February 15, 1926
Cause: SHOT
Age: 32
Years of Service: 7
Description: Officer Saxton and his partner were called to search for suspicious gang members that had car jacked a couple and had committed robbery. The men were found a restaurant, and when they realized that the officers were there to arrest them, one pulled out a gun and shot Officer Saxton in the groin at point-blank range. Officer Saxton was taken to the hospital and treated, but the wound was said to have never fully healed and is cited as a contributing factor in his death three years later. The man that shot him was charged with shooting with intent to kill and carrying a concealed weapon.
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