Police Officer Joseph Allen Coghill

Joseph Allen Coghill

Officer Coghill was shot and killed after he and another officer arrested two men suspected of being involved in a burglary. The two men were placed in a patrol wagon to be taken to jail. One of the men drew a concealed revolver and fired three shots. Officer Coghill was fatally wounded and the other officer was grazed by a round.

The suspect was sentenced to death but the sentence was later commuted to life in prison. He was died in prison when he was accidentally crushed by a service truck at the prison's loading dock.

Officer Coghill was a US Army veteran of WWI. He had served in law enforcement for two years and was survived by his wife.