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Detective Herbert Sullivan
Died August 18, 1980
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| August 18, 1980
around 1:00 p.m. Detective Herbert Ray Sullivan parked his unmarked gray
Chevy pick-up truck in the parking lot at the Save Inn, 2260 54 Avenue
North. Sitting beside him was his partner Detective Harry Herbst. After the
vehicle stopped Detective Herbst got out of the vehicle and entered the
motel where the drug deal was to take place. Detective Sullivan held the
money for the deal. None of the back up units had a visual on Detective
Sullivan and no one noticed a broad-shouldered B/M approach the pickup truck
and open fire hitting Detective Sullivan multiple times in the chest. The
next day police arrested Sammie Lee Mathis and charged him with the murder.
His confederate in the shooting was a W/M by the name of William G. Haake,
who fled to Spain but was later extradited. Both men were sentenced to life
in prison. |
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