Trooper Victor Dosing was attempting to apprehend a murder suspect when he was shot and killed.

On Sunday, December 7, 1941, Trooper Victor Dosing, 34, was killed and Trooper Sam Graham was critically wounded in a shoot out in Southwest Missouri. The two troopers had gone to the Coffee Pot Tavern, one mile south of Galloway on US-65 (now within the city limits of Springfield), to arrest a murder suspect who was living with a waitress above the restaurant. They met local constable John Love and Justice of the Peace A.F. Stubbs as they arrived in the restaurant parking lot. As they were approaching a door on the second floor of the tavern via an outside staircase, the suspect suddenly opened the door and fired two shots at close range with a .38 caliber revolver. Trooper Dosing fell, mortally wounded in the head. Trooper Graham fired one shot after being struck and fell to the ground. The suspect then turned his revolver on his girlfriend and pulled the trigger but the revolver jammed. Then the suspect took Trooper Dosing's service revolver and killed himself.

Trooper Dosing became the third trooper to be killed in the line of duty on the morning of the attack on Pearl Harbor. He attained a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Central Methodist College in May 1931. On October 5, 1931, Victor O. Dosing was sworn in as an original member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and at- tended the academy in St. Louis, MO. He was survived by his wife and two daughters. A third daughter was born after Trooper Dosing was killed. Interred: Maple Park Cemetery in Springfield, MO.