In Memory Of

Deputy Sheriff Green Willis

Scioto County Sheriff's Office

Ohio

End of Watch: Wednesday, September 23, 1931

Biographical Info

Age: 51

Tour of Duty: 5 years

Badge Number: Not available

Incident Details

Cause of Death: Gunfire

Date of Incident: Sunday, April 8, 1928

Weapon Used: Handgun

Suspect Info: Not available

Sheriff's Deputies Willis and John H. Bending responded to a battery call where two suspects were wanted for stabbing another citizen. When the deputies arrived on the scene, they failed to hear warnings from another deputy that both suspects were armed. Both deputies were ambushed before they could get out of their car. Deputy Willis was shot in the neck during an exchange of gunfire. Deputy Willis did not return to work. His health deteriorated until his death. The death certificate verifies the cause of death was a direct result of the gunshot injury to the neck that Deputy Willis received in 1928. Deputy Bending was shot in the head, and killed instantly.

Deputy Willis had been with the agency for five years and was survived by his wife and child.

Related Line of Duty Deaths Deputy Sheriff John Henry Bending

Scioto County Sheriff's Office, OH

EOW: Sunday, April 8, 1928

Cause of Death: Gunfire