Introduction

William "Will, Willy" Reynolds was an American mass murderer who shot nine people, seven of them fatally, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States on April 6, 1902, before being shot dead himself.

With the sheriff and five deputies of the Colbert County Sheriff's Department among those killed this was the deadliest incident in Alabama law enforcement history.

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Victims

• Sheriff Charles Gassaway, 33
• Deputy William Gassaway, brother of Charles Gassaway
• Deputy Jesse Davis
• Deputy James Payne
• Deputy Pat A. Prout
• Deputy Bob Wallace
• Hugh Jones

Those wounded were: James Finney and Bob Patterson.