Son of Felix & Rachel N. Adams Howell.
Deputy Sheriff Amos Howell
Watauga County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina
End of Watch: Friday, November 21, 1902
Deputy Amos Howell succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted two weeks earlier while attempting to arrest a man for murdering his father. He was fatally wounded when the suspect opened fire. The supect's cousin who was with him when he killed Deputy Howell was taken into custody.
The shooter fled to Wyoming, where he was eventually apprehended in August 1903 and extradited back to North Carolina. A few weeks later he escaped from the Caldwell County jail and fled into the nearby mountains. On April 22, 1904, he was shot and killed by a Watauga County deputy sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff Amos Howell
Watauga County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina
End of Watch: Friday, November 21, 1902
Deputy Amos Howell succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted two weeks earlier while attempting to arrest a man for murdering his father. He was fatally wounded when the suspect opened fire. The supect's cousin who was with him when he killed Deputy Howell was taken into custody.
The shooter fled to Wyoming, where he was eventually apprehended in August 1903 and extradited back to North Carolina. A few weeks later he escaped from the Caldwell County jail and fled into the nearby mountains. On April 22, 1904, he was shot and killed by a Watauga County deputy sheriff.
Son of Felix & Rachel N. Adams Howell.
Deputy Sheriff Amos Howell
Watauga County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina
End of Watch: Friday, November 21, 1902
Deputy Amos Howell succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted two weeks earlier while attempting to arrest a man for murdering his father. He was fatally wounded when the suspect opened fire. The supect's cousin who was with him when he killed Deputy Howell was taken into custody.
The shooter fled to Wyoming, where he was eventually apprehended in August 1903 and extradited back to North Carolina. A few weeks later he escaped from the Caldwell County jail and fled into the nearby mountains. On April 22, 1904, he was shot and killed by a Watauga County deputy sheriff.
Deputy Sheriff Amos Howell
Watauga County Sheriff's Office, North Carolina
End of Watch: Friday, November 21, 1902
Deputy Amos Howell succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted two weeks earlier while attempting to arrest a man for murdering his father. He was fatally wounded when the suspect opened fire. The supect's cousin who was with him when he killed Deputy Howell was taken into custody.
The shooter fled to Wyoming, where he was eventually apprehended in August 1903 and extradited back to North Carolina. A few weeks later he escaped from the Caldwell County jail and fled into the nearby mountains. On April 22, 1904, he was shot and killed by a Watauga County deputy sheriff.
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