On April 30, 1913, Officer Andrew Lynch was attempting to arrest John Tatman and Samuel Sherman without backup at Ninth Street and Benton Boulevard when they resisted, grabbed Lynch's gun and fatally wounded him with it. Lynch had taken one of the men's guns a few minutes before when he searched them, and tried to use it to defend himself, but was already too badly injured. When the two men were captured, they confessed to holding up three drug stores in the last three weeks, and to shooting a man right before meeting up with Lynch. They were preparing to rob a drug store when Lynch stopped them. Lynch died of his wounds May 4, 1913.

Officer Lynch was appointed to the police department in October 1907. He was thirty-eight years old.