DENVER (KDVR) — The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office 85 years ago suffered its first line of duty loss in an Arvada bar shooting that turned deadly.

Jefferson County Undersheriff Clarence Fugate died on Oct. 12, 1940, after Jack Carleton, the bartender at Lee's Tavern in Arvada, shot him when Fugate came to the bar to arrest him over a prior shooting at the bar.

According to the sheriff's office, Carleton earlier that day had shot a man at the bar for "flirting with his wife."

When Fugate arrived at the bar to arrest Carleton, Carleton "purposely misdirected" Fugate to the kitchen to look for the weapon used in the shooting.

After Fugate searched the kitchen and couldn't find anything, he returned to the bar, where Carleton opened fire and killed him.

Deputies who were also at the ba

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