Christopher Goodwill was a 33-year-old man serving as a deputy sheriff in Webster Parish, Louisiana, when his life ended in violence on May 28, 1901. Near midnight, word of a murder suspect’s whereabouts drew him into the kind of tense pursuit that could turn deadly in an instant. The man Goodwill was trying to take into custody was already wanted for killing the owner of a boarding house in Minden, and the hunt for him had the urgency of a community still reeling from that earlier bloodshed.
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