Thomas C. Adkins, City Marshal

City of Dewar

Thomas Adkins, 45, had been City Marshal of Dewar two weeks when at 11:09 P.M., July 25, 1974, he stopped a pickup while answering a prowler call. As Adkins approached the pickup, the driver, 20 year old, Darrell Andrews, fired a 12-gauge shotgun at him but missed. Adkins turned to return to his patrol car when Andrews fired again, striking the Marshal in the back of the head, killing him. Andrews would kill Henryetta Auxiliary Police Officer Walter T Hembree and Okmulgee County Deputy Sheriff Burton Brewer within the hour before being wounded and taken into custody.