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Ofc. Leonard Lewis Nelson
CHP - Los Angeles
Date of Birth: February 23, 1908
Date Appointed: Unk
End of Watch: May 18, 1938
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Officer Leonard Lewis Nelson and his partner, Officer L.L. Jordan, were working the graveyard shift in Artesia when they stopped a suspected drunk driver at 2:30 a.m. Nelson was administering the sobriety test to the suspect when a vehicle driven by a second drunk driver crashed into the pair. Both the 30-year-old patrol officer and the driver he had been testing were killed.
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