{"id":94637,"date":"2016-02-13T08:59:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T14:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94637"},"modified":"2016-02-15T08:32:51","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T14:32:51","slug":"gordon-kahl-33-years-since-medina-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94637","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Kahl: 33 years since Medina shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No greater tragedy&#8221;&#8230; . these were the words used by Former Attorney General William French Smith in responding to the deaths in North Dakota of United States Marshal Kenneth H. Muir and Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert S. Cheshire, Jr.- shot February 13, 1983 while attempting to make an arrest.* \u00a0<a title=\"Remembering U.S. Marshals killed in 1983 Medina shoot-out\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94730\" target=\"_blank\">More rememberance.<\/a>\u00a0 This tragic event set off a North Dakota and nationwide search, which spanned from Feb 13 through June 3rd of 1983. \u00a0By the time it was over in Arkansas, two more individuals, \u00a0Sheriff Gene Matthews and Gordon Kahl, would be dead.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/155153694?autoplay=1&amp;color=010d12\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/155153694\">1983 ND Search for Gordon Kahl<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user38330156\">The Replay Channel<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Video clips from the CSi TV Archives &#8211; recorded in February of 1983 as the U.S. Marshals and FBI conducted searches for Gordon Kahl in southeastern North Dakota.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Remembering US Marshals killed in 1983 shooting\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94730\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-94726\" alt=\"MuirCheshire445\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MuirCheshire445.png\" width=\"445\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MuirCheshire445.png 445w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MuirCheshire445-300x202.png 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/MuirCheshire445-259x175.png 259w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It began outside Medina. \u00a0Marshal Muir, Deputy U.S. Marshals Cheshire, Hopson, Carl Wigglesworth, and local law enforcement personnel, set-up a roadblock to serve a warrant on Gordon Kahl, 63, for violating his probation on a tax evasion conviction.<\/p>\n<p>As Kahl and others were leaving a meeting in Medina, an encounter occurred, which resulted in the deaths of Marshal Muir and Deputy Cheshire and the wounding of Deputy Hopson and two other local law enforcement officials. Kahl&#8217;s son, Yorivon, received stomach wounds in the exchange of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KahlGordon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-94645\" alt=\"KahlGordon\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KahlGordon-300x202.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KahlGordon-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KahlGordon-259x175.jpg 259w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/KahlGordon.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that Gordon Kahl had escaped on the North Dakota prairie along with several others; starting one of the most intensive manhunts in recent Midwest history. \u00a0\u00a0Two days after the\u00a0Medina tragedy, a force of approximately 100 law enforcement personnel made up of representatives of the U.S. Marshals Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and State and local agencies converged on the Kahl farmhouse near Heaton, North Dakota. \u00a0No Gordon. \u00a0The search continued in eastern ND.*<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>from Wikipedia: \u00a0A tip was received by authorities from the youngest daughter of a property owner, whose land Leonard Ginter and his wife Norma Ginter lived on. Kahl hid in their earth-bermed passive solar home in\u00a0<strong>Smithville, Arkansas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SheriffGeneMatthews.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-94649\" alt=\"SheriffGeneMatthews\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SheriffGeneMatthews.jpg\" width=\"156\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SheriffGeneMatthews.jpg 156w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SheriffGeneMatthews-140x175.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Another shootout ensued on June 3, 1983, in which Kahl and\u00a0Lawrence County\u00a0Sheriff Gene Matthews died. Despite Federal Marshals and FBI SWAT teams firing thousands of bullets into the home before setting it alight, Kahl was killed by a single\u00a0.41 Magnum\u00a0bullet fired by Sheriff Gene Matthews,\u00a0who died on an operating table\u00a0critically wounded by a bullet from Kahl&#8217;s Mini-14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*(from\u00a0<a title=\"US Marshals Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usmarshals.gov\/history\/muir-cheshire\/\" target=\"_blank\">US Marshals Service website<\/a>) . \u00a0<a title=\"Remembering U.S. Marshals killed in 1983 Medina shoot-out\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=94730\" target=\"_blank\">More rememberance<\/a>\u00a0at CSiNewsNOW<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No greater tragedy&#8221;&#8230; . these were the words used by Former Attorney General William French Smith in responding to the deaths in North Dakota of United States Marshal Kenneth H. Muir and Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert S. Cheshire, Jr.- shot February 13, 1983 while attempting to make an arrest.*<\/p>\n<p>This tragic event set off a nationwide search, which spanned from Feb 13 through June 3rd of 1983. \u00a0By the time it was over, two more individuals, \u00a0Gordon Kahl and Sheriff Gene Matthews, would be dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No greater tragedy&#8221;&#8230; . these were the words used by Former Attorney General William French Smith in responding to the deaths in North Dakota of United States Marshal Kenneth H. Muir and Deputy U.S. Marshal Robert S. 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