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Just in case this was the right officer, I found the following article online from the an
Ely newspaper:
ELY DAILY TIMES
March 4, 1977
Officer Killed in Caliente Shootout
A police officer was killed early Friday during a shootout at the police station here,
according to Lincoln County Sheriff Harold Woodworth.
Woodworth said a pair of Caliente brothers have been booked on open murder charges in the
death of officer Crag A. Love.
Love, 26, the father of one child, moved here from the South Lake Tahoe area recently, and
had been on the police force for only about four months, Woodworth said.
The Sheriff said Love had made an arrest during the night, and was in the police station
researching the statutes on the case when the two brothers entered the station about 4
p.m. and began shooting.
Woodworth identified the two suspects as Frank Harrington, 18, and his brother, Lloyd, age
unavailable.
Love managed to get off several shots, and the younger Harrington was hit twice, according
to Woodworth.
He was taken to Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital in Las Vegas, about 160 miles south of
this town of 900, and was reported in satisfactory condition.
Lloyd Harrington was being held in the local jail.
Woodworth said the Harringtons were acquainted with the suspect in the case Love was
researching at the time of the shootout.