Michael Bruce Keen, Officer

Muldrow Police Department

Shortly after 11 P.M. on Wednesday, June 23, 1982, Officer Keen and his partner Officer Donald Wayne Edwards set up a roadblock on SH – 64-B in Muldrow in an attempt to stop a stolen Chevrolet Camaro being pursued by officers from Roland, Sallisaw and the Sequoyah County Sheriff’s Office. The Camaro did not slow for the roadblock and got around it as the two Muldrow officers fired shots at it. The Camaro was being followed closely by Sallisaw Officer Steven L. Boy. Officer Boy attempted to avoid the Muldrow Police unit and struck Officer Keen knocking him into Officer Edwards and against a guardrail. Officer Keen was dead at the scene. Officers Edwards and Boy were treated at a local hospital. His wife and two children survived Officer Keen. Officer Keen died less than hour before his thirty-third birthday.