Shepard E. "Shep" Brumley, Officer
Sapulpa Police Department
About 9:45 P.M. on January 1, 1923, an anonymous caller reported a disturbance at 223 North Hickory and requested that Chief Ralph Morey come with the responding officers. Officers Brumley and Hildreth were assigned the call plus three other officers were sent as it was in the “colored section” of the city. Upon arrival the officers found the address to be a vacant lot. They then went to the restaurant next door in hopes of getting more information. As the five officers walked upon the porch of the restaurant, the lights inside were turned off, silhouetting the officers against the porch light. Immediately, a volley of gunfire erupted from inside the restaurant. All five officers were wounded and a wound to the head from a 30-30 rifle killed Brumley instantly. His wife and four children survived Brumley.
Thomas Jefferson Brumley, Chief
Sapulpa Police Department
On Saturday, February 3, 1934, about 3:30 P.M. Chief Brumley, Creek County Sheriff Will Strange and two other officers were checking for armed robbery suspects on a tip that they were hiding out in “a little white house north of Sapulpa.” As the officers approached the third white house to be checked out they observed several men running away from the windows. The officers surrounded the house with Brumley covering the rear. As two of the men were walking out the front door to the officers, a shot was heard from the rear of the house. At that moment the officers and the two men drew guns but the officers were quicker and shot the two men before they could fire. One man was killed instantly and the other died the next morning. Officers then ran to the rear of the house and found Chief Brumley shot dead. Apparently a third man, fugitive bank robber Dupert Carolin, had been hiding in the cellar and shot Brumley. The officers then became involved in a running gun battle with Carolin wounding him before he escaped in to the rocks and hills surrounding the rural house. Carolin soon after killed Sapulpa Officer Charles P Lloyd before being killed by other officers. A wife and eleven children survived Brumley.
Sapulpa Police Department
Just after midnight on
Sunday, July 31, 2005, Officer Cantrell, 34, was speeding to assist another
officer involved in a pursuit of a suspect. Riding with Officer Cantrell was his
father Charles Cantrell as part of the department’s Ride-along Program.
Officer Cantrell’s
patrol car was south bound on Highway 66 with overhead lights and siren engaged.
As he approached 96th Street a car started into the intersection then
stopped. Officer Cantrell hit the brakes and swerved to miss the car. The patrol
car missed the stopped car but ran off the road and crashed killing Charles
Cantrell, 59. Officer Cantrell was air lifted to a Tulsa hospital where he died
soon after arriving. Officer Cantrell had been with the Sapulpa Police
Department two years and had served with the Vinita Police Department prior to
that as well as serving eleven years in the Navy. Officer Cantrell was single
and survived by his mother, brother and sister.
James A. Hands, Sergeant
Sapulpa Police Department
On the afternoon of Saturday, March 2, 1918, Sergeant Hands, 50, became involved in an argument with former Chief of Police Dan Redmond, 30, in front of the Police Station. Sergeant Hands had recently testified against the chief in a hearing that cost the chief his job. Sergeant Hands walked away from Redmond and into the station. Redmond followed him into the station, knocked him down and kicked him in the head. Redmond was arrested and placed in jail. Sergeant Hands died in the hospital from his injury early the next morning, Sunday, March 3rd and Redmond was charged with his murder. His wife and two daughters survived Sergeant Hands.
Charles P. Lloyd, Officer
Sapulpa Police Department
On Saturday afternoon February 3, 1934, Officer Lloyd was part of a posse
searching for the last of three armed robbers. Two of the robbers had been
killed and the remaining one, Dupert Carolin, who had killed Sapulpa Chief of
Police Tom Brumley was wounded and hiding in the hills northeast of Sapulpa.
Officer Lloyd came up on Carolin in a ditch. The two men fired at each other at
almost the same time. Officer Lloyd was struck once above the heart but was able
to shoot Carolin before he collapsed and died. Other officers nearby were drawn
by the shots and killed Carolin. Officer Lloyd was survived by his wife and two
adopted children.