HARRY WILSON
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Officer Rank: Detective
Memorial Panel: 21-E: 14
Department: Metropolitan, Washington D.C., P.D.
End of Watch: July 21, 1919
Cause: SHOT
Age: 29
Years of Service: 2
Description: Firearm related assault. Detective Wilson was responding to a riot call at a house located at 7th and G Street, NW. A 17-year-old-girl had barricaded herself in her house. When Detective Wilson entered the bedroom to search for the suspect, Carrie Minor Johnson shot him from under the bed where she was hiding. This incident occurred during the riot of 1919.
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