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Fallen Iowa Officers Honored For National Peace Officers Memorial Week

Story Created: May 15, 2008 at 8:15 AM CDT

Story Updated: May 15, 2008 at 8:16 AM CDT

DES MOINES (AP) - The names of two Iowa law enforcement officers will be added to the Iowa Peace Officer Memorial as the state pay tributes to officers killed in the line of duty.

Thursday's ceremony on the grounds of the Capitol is part of National Peace Officers Memorial Week.

There are currently 135 names of Iowa's memorial, which was dedicated in 1985. Those being added are Harrison County Deputy
Orrin Case and John Stephens, an officer with the Council Bluffs
police department.

Case died after he was shot while responding to a call of a suspicious vehicle on Sept. 16, 1925. His death certificate says he died of a gunshot wound received from a bootlegger.

Stephens was off-duty and working as a security guard at a Council Bluffs restaurant on Dec. 5, 1967, when he and the manager were shot and killed by armed robbers.

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