On the morning of June 17, 1933, McAlester, Oklahoma Police Chief Orrin H. Ott Reed, 48, was killed in a sudden, deadly ambush at Kansas City’s Union Station now known as the Kansas City Massacre. Reed and other officers were escorting federal fugitive Frank Jelly Nash to a waiting car after returning him toward Leavenworth when gunmen opened fire in an attempt to free Nash. The firefight lasted about 30 seconds.

Chief Reed died alongside Kansas City detectives William Grooms and Frank Hermanson, and FBI Special Agent Raymond Caffrey; Nash was also killed in the crossfire. Investigators focused on a gang led by Vernon C. Miller, and named Charles Pretty Boy Floyd and Adam Richetti as primary suspects. Richetti was later tried, convicted for the murders at Union Station, and executed in 1938; other implicated gang members were also later killed or prosecuted.

Are there descendants, researchers, or anyone with family lore about Chief Reed or the other officers who can add personal details or context?