Officer Down

Deputy Sheriff William Charles "Charley" Coen
Harper County Oklahoma Sheriff's Office
End of Watch: Sunday, June 10, 2012
Age: 57
Tour: 1 year

Reserve Deputy Charley Coen was killed in a single-vehicle crash shortly after midnight while responding to an emergency assistance call in Laverne.

He was traveling on Highway 64, about two miles west of Buffalo, when his Dodge Charger patrol car left the roadway on a curve and struck several large hay bales. The collision caused him to become trapped in the vehicle as the it caught fire. It took rescue crews three hours to extricate Deputy Coen from the vehicle.

Deputy Coen had graduated from the academy exactly one year prior to the crash.

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