Ferguson was killed in a shootout on Dec. 27, 1968
. He was 25 years old and had been with the Chicago Police Department for three and a half years at the time.recalled at 3:50 p.m. that day, Ferguson and his partner Patrolman Daniel Cambric, were walking their beat in the 2nd District when they stopped three men – Ralph Bellamy, Calvin Hayden, and Allen Sanders - at 3834 S. Indiana Ave. to question them. One of the men was known to be on parole, another a narcotics user, the foundation said.
Soon afterward, Bellamy rushed back to the scene with a gun he'd gotten nearby, and told Sanders to"get their guns," the foundation recalled. Officers Ferguson and Cambric were disarmed by Sanders and forced into their squad car with the perpetrators, the foundation recalled.
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