Surname Index
Updated: 17 Apr 2009

Crash Kills 3 Lawmen on Pot Hunt

Bill Morgan, 29, of the State Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control, who was piloting the plane, and McAlester officers David Sheehan, 28, and Ronnie Fox, 38.

Morgan, 29, was scheduled to open the first McAlester office of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs on Monday.

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 1, 1981, page 17

...Nigh (Governor) said all state flags will be flown at half staff until funeral services for the three officers are completed. Morgan's funeral will be held at 3 pm Sunday in the Capitol. The body will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda beginning at 11 am. Services for Sheehan and Fox ewill be held today. Sheehan's services will be at 10 am in the Northgate Baptist Church in McAlester. Services for Fox will be at 2 pm in the Arpelar Nazerne Church in Arpelar.

http://www.odmp.org/index.php 

Detective Sheehan (McAlester Police Department), Corporal Ronnie Nile Fox (McAlester Police Department), and Narcotics Agent Billy Morgan were killed when their plane crashed into Jack Fork Mountain in south eastern Oklahoma. The officers were searching for marijuana fields at the time.

Detective Sheehan was survived by his wife and daughter.

Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
August 3, 1981, page 36

Morgan's flag-draped coffin is wheeled past a combined color guard of Oklahoma Highway Patrol troopers and Oklahoma City police officers. 

Billy Fairl Morgan Memorial Highway 
The sign is just East of SE 29 & Harrah Road - I will take a photo next time we go to Shawnee [07/14/07]
Oklahoma County
Between SW 29th Street and US 62 on SH 270 [ This should read SE 29th Street and US 62 on SH 270
Senate Bill 1480, Okla. Session Laws 2004; Commission Item 125 (B10), 7-6-04

[07/14/07 a search of the Oklahoman archives did not find an obit for Bill Morgan]

Sources:  fair use as stated above

Contributed by Marti Graham, June 2007. Information posted for educational purposes for viewers and researchers. The contributor is not related to nor researching any of the above.

Please understand ALL information on this site was contributed by people like you. I am NOT able to help you with research. If it's not on the site, I don't have it. Thanks