William E. Sheffield

How they died

Deadly force

While attempting to serve Sheffield with an arrest warrant for grand larceny, a sheriff's investigator fatally shot him four times when he tried to flee. One of the few cases in which the officer was indicted by a grand jury, the investigator was found not guilty and subsequently serves the county as a reserve deputy. He called his own prosecution "a witch hunt."

Why we remember them

This record exists so that William E. Sheffield, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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