At Rest

Deadly force
Luke C. Parks, 34, a Saline County sheriff's deputy, entered the Randall G. Hawkins' in Dale, and Parks and Hawkins, a guard at the Pinckneyville State Prison, fought. A third person in the house, Oscar Ganem, 21, reportedly tried to separate Parks and Hawkins, when Parks pulled a pistol from his pocket and shot both men. Hawkins died, and Ganem was wounded. After the shooting, Parks walked out into the front yard and shot himself dead.
This record exists so that Randall G. Hawkins, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.
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