Richard Warren Walton was a 43-year-old patrol officer with seven years on the Oakdale Police Department when he was killed while working a secondary job as a hospital security guard. On the evening of October 24, 1982, three men wearing ski masks entered Mounds Park Hospital’s pharmacy and demanded Class A narcotics at gunpoint. Walton arrived as the robbery was unfolding; one of the assailants opened fire, striking him twice in the head. He was taken to another hospital but died of his injuries the next day.

Investigators soon arrested one suspect and later captured the other two men about two years afterward. All three were convicted and received life sentences. One of the gunmen was granted parole in 2015 but was returned to prison after failing a drug test. Walton was survived by his wife and five children.

Does anyone have memories of Walton’s service or information about the case that could add to the record?