Detective Dexter Snow was shot and killed in the rail yards about one mile west of North Vernon.

   He was investigating a report of a man loading scrap iron into a pickup truck when he was shot in the head by a subject who then fled the scene.

   Detective Snow was found by a railroad employee and contacted police who found the pickup truck parked at the subject's residence.

   The 32-year-old suspect had barricaded himself inside armed with a rifle, a shotgun and the officer's .38-caliber pistol.

   After nearly 90 minutes of negotiations with officers who surrounded the house, he died by suicide with the same rifle he used to kill Detective Snow.

   Detective Snow, from North Vernon, was survived by his wife, son, five brothers, three sisters and parents.

The responsibilities of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Police Department (1828–1987) are now under the jurisdiction of the CSX Transportation Railroad Police Department.

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This officer, discovered in 2017, has not been submitted for consideration as an eligible line of duty death to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund by the CSX Transportation Railroad Police Department.