A Wichita Falls Police Department officer who was killed in the line of duty eight decades ago was honored Monday morning.
80 years after his death, the grave of Special Officer Robert Franklin Fennell was given a headstone for the first time. Officer Fennell died in March of 1938 when his throat was slashed with a razor by a man that was kicked out of a local nightclub.
“The only thing that was marking his grave was a rock,” said WFPD officer Brian Bohn. “That’s the only way that they knew where he was buried so we took it from there.”
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