Deputy Sheriff Delbert L. Berry, 32, was shot and killed while on duty on Sunday, September 2, 1973, on the Navajo Reservation at Lupton, Arizona. Berry had been with the Apache County Sheriff’s Office for about two weeks after five years with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office in New Mexico. He stopped at a trading post where roughly 20 people were gathered; according to reports, the group was looting the store when his patrol car was surrounded and a man fired a shotgun into the vehicle, killing him. After the shooting, five people — three adults and two juvenile girls — removed Berry’s body from the patrol car and stole his vehicle and service weapon; those who took the car were caught shortly afterward. A 23-year-old was arrested a month later in Phoenix and charged in the killing. Berry was survived by his wife and three children.

Does anyone have memories of the Lupton area in 1973 or information about the events that night?