In what has been
described as the darkest day in the annals of the
Oklahoma Highway Patrol, three
troopers were slain on
May 26, 1978, in two separate shootouts with two escaped
Oklahoma State Prison convicts in the
Caddo-Kenefic area of
Bryan County.
The three troopers killed in the tragedy were Trooper
Houston F. "Pappy" Summers, 62, and Trooper
Billy G. Young, 50, both members of the
Motor Inspection Division who had been assigned to assist in tracing down the felons, and Lt.
Pat Grimes, 36, who with his partner, Lt.
Hoyt Hughes,
internal Affairs Division, also had drawn an assignment to search for the
escapees. Hughes was injured in the
gunfire exchange, but recovered from his wounds.
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