JAMES ROBERT WRIGHT
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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 48-E: 28
Department: Letcher County, Kentucky, S.O.
End of Watch: June 13, 1926
Cause: SHOT
Age: 39
Years of Service: 2 months
Description: Deputy Sheriff Wright was fatally shot as he and fellow officers arrived at a boarding house to serve a warrant. Two suspects were arrested. One suspect was convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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