Lieutenant
Leonard N Brown

Date of Appointment:	October 1, 1939
Date of Death:	July 7, 1958
NLEOM Panel:	Panel 18
NLEOM Section:	W - 11
Details:	Brown, Leonard N. - Lieutenant, 47 years old, 18 years and 6 months of service from October 1, 1939 to July 7, 1958. When Lieutenant Brown stepped forward to arrest an intruder, Brown was shot in the stomach with a small caliber pistol while on a stakeout for a holdup. He was shot at Smitty's Steak House (restaurant), Bryans Road. He was on the operating table for four hours as surgeons attempted to remove the bullet lodged in a muscle close to the spine. Trooper Brown never regained consciousness.