Andrew lynch
Agency: Kansas City Police Department, MO
Officer Lynch was appointed to the police department in October 1907. His parents, Andrew and Sarah Lynch were Irish immigrants.
On April 30, 1913, Officer Andrew Lynch was attempting to arrest John Tatman and Samuel Sherman without backup at Ninth Street and Benton Boulevard when they resisted, grabbed Lynch's gun and fatally wounded him with it. Officer Lynch had taken one of the men's guns a few minutes before when he searched them, and tried to use it to defend himself, but was already too badly injured. When the two men were captured, they confessed to holding up three drug stores in the last three weeks, and to shooting a man right before meeting up with Officer Lynch. These same suspects were known to have killed Officer Homer Riggle in February of that year. They were preparing to rob a drug store when Officer Lynch stopped them.
Officer Lynch died of his wounds May 4, 1913 at German Hospital.
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