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Photograph: Officer Johnny Farrell Puckett Sr.

Patch image: DeKalb County Police Department, Georgia






Officer Johnny Farrell Puckett Sr.
DeKalb County Police Department
Georgia

End of Watch: Saturday, July 16, 1966

Biographical Info
Age: 28
Tour of Duty: 5 years
Badge Number: 326

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: Saturday, July 16, 1966
Weapon Used: Handgun
Suspect Info: Released from mental hospital

Officer Puckett was shot and killed by a suspect he had stopped in a suspicious car. When Officer Puckett turned his back on the suspect he was shot and killed.

The next day the suspect shot and killed Officer George Clifford Burnette III of the East Point Police Department. The suspect was later captured and spent ten years in a mental hospital and was released.

Officer Puckett had been with the agency for five years.

Related Line of Duty Deaths
Patch image: DeKalb County Police Department, GeorgiaOfficer George Clifford Burnette III
East Point Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, July 16, 1966
Cause of Death: Gunfire

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