Mats Kuoppala
Syntymäaika: 9.1.1881
Kuolinaika: 03.10.1924
Location / Place: Lahti
Rank: Detective Constable
Police unit: Lahti Police Department
Lähteitä: Suomen Poliisilehti 18-19/1924, 20/1924. Poliisimies 9/1930, 5a/1933.
Nickname: Matti
Tapahtumien kuvaus: At 2 am on 1.10.1924 Constables Matti Kuoppala and Hugo Lehto were following a bootlegger at the railway station. They were about to apprehend him on the rail yard when he suddenly took out a flashlight and a pistol. He used the flashlight to dazzle the policemen, fired two shots at them and ran away. Kuoppala’s wounds were treated at the hospital, and he was able to return to active duty. Lehto had been seriously wounded. However, it was Kuoppala who, in the evening two days later, was found dead in the hallway of his home. The autopsy showed that he had died from a head injury caused by the bullet.
Tekijä 1: Tuominen, Toivo
Judgment 1: Prison sentence of 15 years
Memorial plaque: Police University College
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