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==Details of the slayings==

==Details of the slayings==

Nugent and Brunson were killed by Walter Johnson (born c. 1894), a farmer from the Aloha community, who was charged with double murder. After the murders, Johnson fled into the dense Lake Iatt swamp. Sam Johnson, Walter Johnson's 84-year-old father, was taken from Colfax, the parish seat of government , to an undisclosed place of incarceration and held under a $1,900 appearance bond as a material witness in the case. Louisiana state police and local law enforcement officers, armed with guns, tear gas, bombs, and bloodhounds, combed the wooded area where Walter Johnson fled.<ref name=nugent/>​

Nugent and Brunson were killed by Walter Johnson (born c. 1894), a farmer from the Aloha community, who was charged with double murder. After the murders, Johnson fled into the dense Lake Iatt swamp. Sam Johnson, Walter Johnson's 84-year-old father, was taken from Colfax, the parish seat of government, to an undisclosed place of incarceration and held under a $1,900 appearance bond as a material witness in the case. Louisiana state police and local law enforcement officers, armed with guns, tear gas, bombs, and bloodhounds, combed the wooded area where Walter Johnson fled.<ref name=nugent/>​

The two Johnsons claimed that dipping cattle causes the animals to become ill. Sheriff Nugent came to serve an order from the 8th Judicial District Court upon Walter Johnson to compel him to have his animals dipped. Nugent and two other officers then began loading some of Johnson's cattle onto a truck to transport them to the dipping vat. Perched in a wooded area, Walter Johnson fired on the officers with a rifle. Brunson and Nugent were found an hour later. The Grant Parish coroner, Dr. J. H. Sandifer, determined that the pair was killed by No. 6 buckshot slugs fired from a shotgun. Walter Johnson was thought to have used a .30-.30 caliber rifle. It was then believed that Johnson had two weapons.<ref name=nugent/>​

The two Johnsons claimed that dipping cattle causes the animals to become ill. Sheriff Nugent came to serve an order from the 8th Judicial District Court upon Walter Johnson to compel him to have his animals dipped. Nugent and two other officers then began loading some of Johnson's cattle onto a truck to transport them to the dipping vat. Perched in a wooded area, Walter Johnson fired on the officers with a rifle. Brunson and Nugent were found an hour later. The Grant Parish coroner, Dr. J. H. Sandifer, determined that the pair was killed by No. 6 buckshot slugs fired from a shotgun. Walter Johnson was thought to have used a .30-.30 caliber rifle. It was then believed that Johnson had two weapons.<ref name=nugent/>​

==Women sheriffs in Louisiana==

==Women sheriffs in Louisiana==

 

For a time after his death, Mrs. Lydia Nugent by appointment succeeded her husband as sheriff of Grant Parish.<ref name=fnpobit/> Similarly, four years later in 1940, after the death of Sheriff [[Eugene Campbell]] of Concordia Parish, his widow, Darlene Fuchs Campbell, served as sheriff until her own death eighteen months later on July 25, 1941.<ref>"Mrs. Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat'', Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> No woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy, a Democrat, won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> with 51.5 percent of the vote cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish, October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>

For a time after his death, Mrs. Lydia Nugent by appointment succeeded her husband as sheriff of Grant Parish.<ref name=fnpobit/> Similarly, four years later in 1940, after the death of Sheriff [[Eugene Campbell]] of Concordia Parish, his widow, Darlene Fuchs Campbell, served as sheriff until her own death eighteen months later on July 25, 1941.<ref>"Mrs. Campbell Died Yesterday: Splendid Lady of Vidalia Called by Death, Buried Yesterday", ''The Natchez Democrat'', Natchez, [[Mississippi]], July 26, 1941.</ref> No woman was elected sheriff in Louisiana until 1999, when Beth Oakley Lundy, a Democrat, won the position in Calcasieu Parish, which includes [[Lake Charles]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.reocities.com/vbenson_2000/sheriffs.htm|title=First Woman Sheriffs in the United States of America|publisher=reocities.com|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref> with 51.5 percent of the vote cast in the nonpartisan blanket primary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://staticresults.sos.la.gov/10231999/10231999_10.html|title=Election returns: Calcasieu Parish, October 23, 1999|publisher=staticresults.sos.la.gov|accessdate=July 25, 2014}}</ref>

 

==References==

==References==

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