Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor, Phillips County Sheriff's Department, Arkansas

Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor

Phillips County Sheriff's Department, Arkansas

End of Watch Saturday, August 24, 1935

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Daniel O'Connor

Deputy Sheriff Daniel O'Connor was shot and killed by a 17-year-old boy when he and other officers attempted to arrest the boy's father at their home for drunk driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

In an exchange of gunfire the boy's father was killed. Before fleeing the youth stabbed another officer in the back. Bloodhounds led officers to a nearby woods where he was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Age 38
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Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Weapon Rifle
Offender Committed suicide

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Deputy Sheriff O’Connor,
On today, the 90th anniversary of your death I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice-not just as a Law Enforcement Officer but for our Country as well when you served with the U.S. Army as a member of the 30th “Old Hickory” Division in Europe fighting the Germans during World War I.

BPA Mike Casey
United States Border Patrol(Retired)

August 24, 2025