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John Melvin "Pete" Woods
28 Feb 1914 – 12 Dec 1964
| Birth | 28 Feb 1914 |
| Death | 12 Dec 1964 |
| Cemetery | Odd Fellows Cemetery Carthage , Panola County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | KD Burleson on 29 Mar 2015 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/22356171 |
Bio
Officer Woods was shot and killed by Tom Shaw, a robbery suspect who didn't want to be arrested. Shaw also shot Officer Fred Williams, who recovered but carried the bullet in his chest for the rest of his life. Source: "Glenn Elliott: Still a Ranger's Ranger". This is to verify any information https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LRGT-P6P Information may not be 100% correct. I based information from FS. if anything needs to be corrected please send me a suggestion. Thank you Patrolman Pete Woods was shot and killed by an escaped convict that was a passenger in a vehicle that area police were searching for following a robbery in Mount Pleasant. He located and stopped the vehicle approximately one block from the county courthouse. During a struggle the suspect grabbed his gun, shot him, and another officer in the chest before being subdued. The other officer recovered. (https://www.odmp.org/officer/14481-patrolman-pete-m-woods) The killer, 27, was arrested hours later, along with another man, 38, and a woman, 18, by officers in Shreveport, Louisiana. The killer was a Louisiana prison inmate who escaped from a New Orleans hospital nine days earlier. On July 19, 1965, he was convicted of murder, attempted murder, and sentenced to 134 years. As he left the court room he was smiling and winking at women spectators. He was returned to Angola Prison in Louisiana to finish a term for armed robbery before being returned to Texas. He and the woman still faced two armed robbery charges in Louisiana and two in Texas. On February 17, 1967, the suspect escaped from the same New Orleans hospital where he was being treated for an ear infection. He was quickly captured. On March 28, 1975, he along with four other inmates escaped from the Smith County Jail in Tyler Texas. On June 24, 1975, he was captured in Jasper after police surprised him in a closed drug store. He died in prison on March 26, 2010. Patrolman Woods had served with the Carthage Police Department for six years.
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NATIONAL POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA - VALOR; DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY.
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- J P Woods 1905–1978
- Lonnie David "L. D." Woods 1907–1986
- Opal Lucille Woods Allums 1909–1977
- Oscar Woods 1910–1973
- Georgie Ruth Woods Dailey 1912–1999
- Pearlie Christine Woods Long 1916–1966
- June Eunice Woods Williams Meek 1919–1989
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