SILAS WEST
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Officer Rank: Chief of Police
Memorial Panel: 64-W: 3
Department: Somerset, Kentucky, P.D.
End of Watch: January 16, 1928
Cause: SHOT
Age: 58
Years of Service: 6
Description: Chief of Police West was shot by an intoxicated man he had stopped earlier. Chief West returned fire, fatally wounding his assailant. Chief West died of his injuries the next day.
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