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Cops Killed By ViolatorspheinsciniefirH.aClwB11. VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) - A motorist shot and killed two policemen Thursday night after they trapped him on a dead-end street and tried to give him a traffic citation.Dead are Patrolmen Calvin Thacker, SB, and William Eas-son, 31. ■ 'Most of Vallejo’s 70-man police force, reinforced by sheriff's deputies and the California Highway Patrol, blocked all exits from this San Francisco Bay e area city as well as two bridges, tlHunted was a restaurant c worker at nearby El Cerrito, traced through a partly com- a pleted citation found beside a f. patrolman's body. tlt;Police said Ihcir quarry has p police records in Napa and Oakland and that he was once arrested in this county on an as-sault with a deadly weapon ( charge. His fingerprints and spent cartridges were found in an abandoned car, also traced through the citation.An unnamed witness, attracted by the gunfire, said there were four persons in the ear police had stopped—two men and two women.
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Centralia Daily Chronicle
Centralia, Washington, US
Fri, Apr 08, 1966
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