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Charles F. Artz
Type of Officer: Railroad Special Agent
Jurisdiction Wichita
County: Sedgwick
Death Date: 6/27/1920
Added to Memorial: 2002
Circumstances of Death:
In the early morning of June 27, 1920, Rock Island Railroad Special Agent Charles F. Artz arrested four men on vagrancy charges near the Rock Island tracks in North Wichita. As Agent Artz escorted the men out of railroad yards to meet a city patrolman who was to take custody of the suspects, three men, not associated with the vagrants, accosted Agent Artz and shot him once in the head. Agent Artz died at the scene.

Richard J. Asten
Type of Officer: Police Sergeant
Jurisdiction Kansas City
County: Wyandotte
Death Date: 6/11/1998
Added to Memorial: 1999
Circumstances of Death:
On Thursday evening, June 11, 1998, Officer Asten was killed when he was struck by a stolen vehicle being pursued by another officer. Asten was on duty in northwest Kansas City when he learned of the pursuit and realized that the vehicle was headed his way. After parking in a median, he stepped out of his car to deploy Astop sticks intended to disable the vehicle. At that moment the vehicle approached and the driver swerved to strike Asten, who died as a result of the collision. Officer Asten was forty-six years old and a thirteen-year veteran of the Kansas City Police Department.

Mark Avery
Type of Officer: Corrections Officer
Jurisdiction Lansing
County: Leavenworth
Death Date: 5/23/1993
Added to Memorial: 1994
Circumstances of Death:
Corrections Officers Mark Avery and Michael Bidatsch were on routine duty supervising the Lansing Correctional Facility recreation hall on May 22nd 1993 when they were attacked and beaten with bar bell plates and a stocking cap stuffed with pool balls. Officer Avery later died at the University of Kansas Medical Center.