Jason Victor Buchanan, Officer/Special Agent

Hugo Police Department/Frisco Railroad

Officer Buchanan and Hugo Special Officer Sterling Jackson were patrolling the railroad yards of Hugo about 9 P.M. on December 18, 1931, when they encountered three men who had just gotten off a boxcar. As Buchanan was searching one of the men, Nathan Rightsell, he drew an automatic pistol and shot both officers. Rightsell and one of the men ran off while the third man named Pickering stayed and notified authorities of the shooting. Jackson was shot in the hip and survived but Buchanan, shot through both lungs, died at 12:15 P.M. the next day, December 19th. Rightsell was later captured, convicted and died in the electric chair at McAlester on February 24, 1933. His wife and three children survived Buchanan.