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Torresola quickly fired four shots from his 9 mm German Luger, semi-automatic pistol at close range at the officer, who was Leslie Coffelt, before he could react. Three of the shots struck Coffelt in the chest and abdomen, and the fourth went through his policeman's tunic. Coffelt slumped down in his chair, mortally wounded. [2] [3]
Leslie William Coffelt (August 15, 1910 – November 1, 1950) was an officer of the White House Police, a branch of the Secret Service, who was killed while successfully defending U.S. President Harry S. Truman against an attempted assassination on November 1, 1950, at Blair House, where the president was living during renovations at the White ...
The couple moved from North Dakota to Coeur d'Alene, lured by a job at the "Kootenai County Leader" in 1961. Thompson moved to Sandpoint a short time later where he went to work for the News-Bulletin where he stayed until 1965 when he bought half interest in a local print shop. Thompson would soon buy the entire business to ensure a move to a ...
In 1972, Coffelt reached out to his former cellmate, a man named James Brown (not “The Godfather of Soul” James Brown) with a confession that he was behind the D.B. Cooper hijacking.As the ...
Nov. 11—A 74-year-old Sandpoint man died Saturday after the driver of a truck struck him while he was riding an electric bicycle Friday in Hayden. A 29-year-old Athol man was driving a Toyota ...
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Coffelt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jon Coffelt (born 1963), American artist; Leslie Coffelt (1910–1950), American police officer; Soraya Diase Coffelt (born 1958), United States Virgin Islands lawyer and judge
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