According to a newspaper story of the time, Officer Allen was killed only thirty feet from the site where Officer John Gaines had died two years earlier. The editor, arriving first, drew a handgun from a briefcase he had left at the store and shot Officer Allen as he entered, his own gun drawn and ready. After a confrontation with the editor by the wagon yard near Red River Street, Officer Allen followed the man to Jennings' drugstore. Officer Allen was angered by reports that he had mistreated several African-American women he had arrested. The shooting followed an argument between Officer Allen and the editor of a black newspaper in San Antonio. Officer Tom Allen, Austin's only African-American police officer since the death of John Gaines two years earlier, was shot and killed at Jennings' Drug Store in the 400 block of East 6th Street. Officer Tom Allen, age unknown, (October 24, 1915)
Officer Gaines and his wife, Sarah, were originally from Big Spring, Texas.
At that time, African-American officers were not allowed to arrest Caucasians. Booth, who had been making a disturbance, shot Officer Gaines while Gaines was on the telephone summoning help from the police station. Officer John Gaines, the only African American officer on the Austin police force, was shot by George Booth, a deputy constable, at 6th Street and Trinity Street on November 19, 1913. Officer John Gaines, 50, (November 19, 1913) Memorial located at APD Headquarters, 715 E. Officer Fahey, according to local press, "was an efficient officer, and fell while in the discharge of his duty." He is the first Austin police officer known to have died in the line of duty. Fahey was able to identify Tiner before dying of his wounds. His assailant, a "whiskey-crazed" man named Mark Tiner, fled the scene on horseback and was captured in Hancock's pasture approximately 3 ½ miles north of the city. Officer Fahey, a native of Cork, Ireland, was shot through the abdomen on an unknown block of Congress Avenue between the hours of 12 a.m. The following is a list of officers killed during their course of duty at the Austin Police Department:
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