John Perry Hood, a 23-year-old male deputy sheriff, was killed on December 24, 1928, near Pleasant Ridge in Greene County, Alabama, on the Clinton-Pleasant Ridge Road about fifteen miles north of Eutaw. The surviving accounts paint the scene as one shaped by the hard edges of Prohibition-era law enforcement: Hood was out on duty, confronting a vehicle believed to be tied to illegal liquor activity, when the encounter turned fatal and he was shot down before he could bring the stop under control.
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