SAM SIXKILLER

Officer Rank: Deputy Marshal
Memorial Panel: 10-E: 10
Department: U.S. Marshals Service
End of Watch: December 24, 1886
Cause: SHOT
Age: 44
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Sam Sixkiller was ambushed and killed while walking down the street in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Although his murderers were able to escape justiceon a technicality, Congress reacted by making it a federal offenseto kill any Indian police officer (18 U.S.C. 1114).
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