Memorial dedicated to Texas Ranger killed in 1987 shooting
(City of Horsehoe Bay photo)
HORSESHOE BAY, Texas (AP) - A memorial has been dedicated in the Texas Hill Country to a Texas Ranger thirty years after he was shot to death.
The Texas Department of Public Safety, the Texas Rangers Association Foundation and the City of Horseshoe Bay, in ceremonies at the Horseshoe Bay Police Department, dedicated a memorial marker Saturday to honor Texas Ranger Stan Guffey. He was shot and killed in 1987 while rescuing a 2-year-old kidnapped child in Horseshoe Bay. Another Texas Ranger, John Aycock, killed the man who shot Guffey.
Rangers Chief Randall Price says Guffey heroically and without hesitation put his life on the line to save a child.
Guffey, from Perryton, started as a highway patrolman in 1968 and was stationed at Brady at the time of his death.