Westminster, Colorado: Plaque: Where Lloyd Barker was Killed
1930s gangster Lloyd "Red" Barker was in prison when his mother "Ma" Barker was gunned down. He eventually moved here and got a job, but was shot dead by his wife who ended up in the state insane asylum.
- Address:
- 3915 W. 73rd Ave., Westminster, CO
- Directions:
- From Lowell Blvd turn west at the stoplight onto W. 73rd Ave. Drive three blocks. You'll see a park on the right. The plaque is set into the brick sidewalk, on the north side of W. 73rd Ave., just east of its intersection with Osceola St.
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A plaque in the sidewalk recounts how Lloyd "Red" Barker, once a member of Ma Barker's criminal gang, became a law-abiding citizen and then was shot dead by his wife here in 1949.
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