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Charles Lloyd Hopkins
Date of Birth: February 23, 1881

Began at INS: December 24, 1912

TITLE: Mounted Watchman

Date Died: May 8, 1919

DETAILS: On May 8, 1919, at 10:15 p.m., Mounted Watchman Charles Lloyd Hopkins was shot by smugglers on the banks of the Rio Grande River, near Laredo, Texas. He died three hours later in Mercy Hospital, Laredo. Reportedly, the shot which killed Mounted Watchman Hopkins was the first shot fired in a general gun battle between smugglers and federal officers in which a United States Public Health Service Guard, Ira Hill, and several of the Mexican smugglers were also killed.

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