USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Local police and BOI agents led by Melvin Purvis shot Floyd on October 22, 1934 in a corn field in East Liverpool, Ohio.

Detailed explanation-2: -Notorious Depression-era desperado Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd met his demise in what is now property within Beaver Creek State Park. He died at the hands of federal agents and members of the East Liverpool Police Department on October 22, 1934.

Detailed explanation-3: -Floyd jumped from the car with a . 45-caliber automatic pistol in his right hand, and the officers fired. As the officers ran toward Floyd, he said, “I’m done for; you’ve hit me twice.” He died about 15 minutes later. This mask of Pretty Boy Floyd’s face was made after his death on October 22, 1934.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd is shot by FBI agents in a cornfield in East Liverpool, Ohio. Floyd, who had been a hotly pursued fugitive for four years, used his last breath to deny his involvement in the infamous Kansas City Massacre, in which four officers were shot to death at a train station.

Detailed explanation-5: -Pretty Boy Floyd, byname of Charles Arthur Floyd, (born February 3, 1904, Bartow county, Georgia, U.S.-died October 22, 1934, near East Liverpool, Ohio), American gunman whose violent bank robberies and run-ins with police made newspaper headlines.