PHOTOS: Fallen Texas Ranger honored in Horseshoe Bay
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FROM STAFF REPORTS
HORSESHOE BAY — About 350-400 people attended an event Jan. 21 in Horseshoe Bay honoring a fallen Texas Ranger who died in an incident involving the attempted kidnapping of a 2-year-old girl.
In January 1987, Texas Rangers Stan Guffey and John Aycock volunteered to hide in the back of a car that law enforcement provided to the kidnapper as part of his ransom demands.
Brent Albert Beeler, a parolee who had already killed a woman, got into the car with the girl, Kara Leigh-Ann Whitehead of Horseshoe Bay. He spotted the rangers and fired at Guffey. In an exchange of gunfire with Beeler, Guffey was killed.
Aycock returned fire and killed Beeler and pulled the girl out of harm’s way.
Along with the unveiling of the monument, Horseshoe Bay Mayor Steve Jordan proclaimed Jan. 22 as Stanley Keith Guffey Day.
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