Chief of Police Orrin Henry "Ott" Reed

Chief of Police Orrin Henry
McAlester Police Department, Oklahoma
Chief of Police Orrin Henry "Ott" Reed

McAlester Police Department, Oklahoma

End of Watch Saturday, June 17, 1933

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Orrin Henry "Ott" Reed

Chief of Police Ott Reed was one of four law enforcement officers killed in Kansas City, Missouri, in an incident referred to as the Kansas City Massacre.

Chief Reed was survived by his wife, son, and two daughters.

On June 17, 1933, a group of men attempted to free inmate Frank Nash as he was being transported to Leavenworth. In the ensuing gun battle, Detective Frank Hermanson and Detective William Grooms, of the Kansas City Police Department, Chief of Police Otto Read, of the McAlester Police Department, Oklahoma, and Special Agent Raymond Caffrey, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, were shot and killed. This ambush became known as the Kansas City Massacre. 

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Bio

  • Age 48
  • Tour Not available
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Incident Details

  • Cause Gunfire
  • Location Missouri
  • Weapon Rifle; Machine gun
  • Offender One executed

escape attempt

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