MARION STAPLETON

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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 30-E: 26
Department: Menifee County, Kentucky, S.O.
End of Watch: July 13, 1932
Cause: SHOT
Age: 40
Years of Service: 10
Description: Deputies Stapleton and Stanley Helton were shot as they attempted to serve a murder warrant. As the officers approached the residence, the suspect opened fire with a shot gun, killing Deputy Stapleton and seriously wounding Deputy Helton. Deputy Helton was transported to a doctor's office where he succumbed to his injuries twelve days later.
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