Bio: Police Officer Elwin M. Slater
Pueblo Police Department, Colorado
End of Watch: Thursday, October 8, 1903
Biographical Info
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Weapon Used: Officer's handgun
Officer Slater accidentally shot and killed himself while attempting to assist Officer Silas Martz[sic], who had just been shot by a suspect. The two officers had responded to a disturbance involving a drunk man at a local store. As Officer Martz[sic] entered the store he was shot in the neck by the suspect with a .45 caliber pistol and killed instantly. As Officer Slater entered the store to help Officer Martz[sic] he began to draw his weapon which discharged and struck him in the leg. Officer Slater succumbed to his wound the next day.
Related Line of Duty Deaths: Police Officer Silas Martz[sic]
Pueblo Police Department, CO
EOW: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Tri-County Obituaries
Pueblo Police Department - October 1903 - Officer Elwin Slater, Officer Silas Martz[sic], Pueblo Police Department - Officers Martz[sic] and Slater responded to a disturbance at the Palace Drug Store on October 7, 1903. Dr. C. O. Rice was intoxicated and threatening people with a .45 revolver. Martz[sic] entered the store and tried to talk to Dr. Rice, but as he stepped forward, Rice shot him in the neck. Slater then entered the drug store and tried to draw his weapon, accidentally discharging it and shooting himself in the leg. Martz[sic] died immediately following the incident, and Slater died a day later from his wound.
Officer Marts (# 51702362) is buried next to Officer Slater, but there is no headstone for Officer Slater.
Contributed by Linda Myers (great-grand niece)
Pueblo Police Department, Colorado
End of Watch: Thursday, October 8, 1903
Biographical Info
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Weapon Used: Officer's handgun
Officer Slater accidentally shot and killed himself while attempting to assist Officer Silas Martz[sic], who had just been shot by a suspect. The two officers had responded to a disturbance involving a drunk man at a local store. As Officer Martz[sic] entered the store he was shot in the neck by the suspect with a .45 caliber pistol and killed instantly. As Officer Slater entered the store to help Officer Martz[sic] he began to draw his weapon which discharged and struck him in the leg. Officer Slater succumbed to his wound the next day.
Related Line of Duty Deaths: Police Officer Silas Martz[sic]
Pueblo Police Department, CO
EOW: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Tri-County Obituaries
Pueblo Police Department - October 1903 - Officer Elwin Slater, Officer Silas Martz[sic], Pueblo Police Department - Officers Martz[sic] and Slater responded to a disturbance at the Palace Drug Store on October 7, 1903. Dr. C. O. Rice was intoxicated and threatening people with a .45 revolver. Martz[sic] entered the store and tried to talk to Dr. Rice, but as he stepped forward, Rice shot him in the neck. Slater then entered the drug store and tried to draw his weapon, accidentally discharging it and shooting himself in the leg. Martz[sic] died immediately following the incident, and Slater died a day later from his wound.
Officer Marts (# 51702362) is buried next to Officer Slater, but there is no headstone for Officer Slater.
Contributed by Linda Myers (great-grand niece)
Bio: Police Officer Elwin M. Slater
Pueblo Police Department, Colorado
End of Watch: Thursday, October 8, 1903
Biographical Info
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Weapon Used: Officer's handgun
Officer Slater accidentally shot and killed himself while attempting to assist Officer Silas Martz[sic], who had just been shot by a suspect. The two officers had responded to a disturbance involving a drunk man at a local store. As Officer Martz[sic] entered the store he was shot in the neck by the suspect with a .45 caliber pistol and killed instantly. As Officer Slater entered the store to help Officer Martz[sic] he began to draw his weapon which discharged and struck him in the leg. Officer Slater succumbed to his wound the next day.
Related Line of Duty Deaths: Police Officer Silas Martz[sic]
Pueblo Police Department, CO
EOW: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Tri-County Obituaries
Pueblo Police Department - October 1903 - Officer Elwin Slater, Officer Silas Martz[sic], Pueblo Police Department - Officers Martz[sic] and Slater responded to a disturbance at the Palace Drug Store on October 7, 1903. Dr. C. O. Rice was intoxicated and threatening people with a .45 revolver. Martz[sic] entered the store and tried to talk to Dr. Rice, but as he stepped forward, Rice shot him in the neck. Slater then entered the drug store and tried to draw his weapon, accidentally discharging it and shooting himself in the leg. Martz[sic] died immediately following the incident, and Slater died a day later from his wound.
Officer Marts (# 51702362) is buried next to Officer Slater, but there is no headstone for Officer Slater.
Contributed by Linda Myers (great-grand niece)
Pueblo Police Department, Colorado
End of Watch: Thursday, October 8, 1903
Biographical Info
Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Date of Incident: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Weapon Used: Officer's handgun
Officer Slater accidentally shot and killed himself while attempting to assist Officer Silas Martz[sic], who had just been shot by a suspect. The two officers had responded to a disturbance involving a drunk man at a local store. As Officer Martz[sic] entered the store he was shot in the neck by the suspect with a .45 caliber pistol and killed instantly. As Officer Slater entered the store to help Officer Martz[sic] he began to draw his weapon which discharged and struck him in the leg. Officer Slater succumbed to his wound the next day.
Related Line of Duty Deaths: Police Officer Silas Martz[sic]
Pueblo Police Department, CO
EOW: Wednesday, October 7, 1903
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Tri-County Obituaries
Pueblo Police Department - October 1903 - Officer Elwin Slater, Officer Silas Martz[sic], Pueblo Police Department - Officers Martz[sic] and Slater responded to a disturbance at the Palace Drug Store on October 7, 1903. Dr. C. O. Rice was intoxicated and threatening people with a .45 revolver. Martz[sic] entered the store and tried to talk to Dr. Rice, but as he stepped forward, Rice shot him in the neck. Slater then entered the drug store and tried to draw his weapon, accidentally discharging it and shooting himself in the leg. Martz[sic] died immediately following the incident, and Slater died a day later from his wound.
Officer Marts (# 51702362) is buried next to Officer Slater, but there is no headstone for Officer Slater.
Contributed by Linda Myers (great-grand niece)
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