Christopher Lee (Deputy Sheriff) CASTETTER

17 Jul 1967
28 Nov 1996
Killed in the line of duty.


Deputy Castetter was shot and killed after responding to a suspicious vehicle call in regard to an ongoing domestic violence call. After an argument with her boyfriend in Purdy at the Country Corner convenience store during which the suspect, Cecil Clayton, argued and pushed her the female refused to leave with Clayton. An employee of the store called the police and the Purdy Police Chief made contact with Clayton at the store. After Clayton left the store, the female went to a friends residence in Monett, Missouri. The female's sister, who was aware of the earlier altercation in Purdy, noticed a truck pull into the driveway of the female's residence in Cassville, Missouri. Correctly believing it to be Clayton, the sister called the Barry County Sheriff's Department. As Deputy Castetter pulled up, the Clayton opened the door to his patrol car and shot him in the head. Deputy Castetter was taken to Cox Medical Center in Springfield, Missouri where he died at 1:08 pm.

Cecil Clayton was sentenced to death in June 1999 for the murder of Deputy Castetter.

Deputy Castetter had served with the agency for 2 years. Deputy Castetter joined the sheriff's department in 1995 as a reserve deputy while he was working with Cassville Police Department. He became a full-time deputy sheriff in April 1996. He is survived by his wife, Christine, and three children. Interred: Pilant Cemetery, Cassville, MO.
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Obituary:
CASSVILLE, Mo. … Christopher Lee Castetter, 29, Cassville, died at 1:08 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, 1996, in Springfield, from a gunshot wound while serving in the line of duty as a deputy in the Barry County Sheriff's Department.

Mr. Castetter was born July 17, 1967, in Indianapolis, Ind. He attended schools in New Smyrna Beach, Fla. He moved to Cassville in 1988 from Grayslake, Ill. He worked at Emerson Electric, Rogers, Ark., for five years before he worked at the sheriff's Department. He was graduated from Missouri Southern State College Police Academy, Joplin, and was a member of the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, Joplin.

He married Christine Anne Schultz on Sept. 10, 1988, in Cassville. She survives.

Additional survivors include three daughters, Cara Anne Rutherford, Jefferson City, and Julie Elizabeth Schultz and Bonnie Lynn Schultz, both of the home; his father and stepmother, James William and Judith Anne Castetter II, New Smyrna Beach; his mother, Judy Glaze, Seligman; three brothers, James William Castetter III and David Wayne Castetter, both of Edgewater, Fla., and Clayton Alan Castetter, Cocoa, Fla.; two half-brothers, Bobby Ray Haney, Indianapolis, Ind., and Phillip Harold Glaze, Rogers, Ark.; a stepbrother, Brad Dunigan, Indianapolis; two stepsisters, Lisa Woods and Tammy Dunigan, both of Edgewater; and a grandson.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Cassville High School Gymnasium. The Rev. Sammy Flores will officiate. Burial will be in Pilant Cemetery, Cassville.

Pallbearers will be deputies of the Barry County Sheriff's Department.

Contributions may be made to the Christopher Castetter Donation Account, in care of Boatman's Bank, Cassville.

Arrangements are under the direction of Williamson Funeral Home, Cassville.

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