Buck Barrow partly due to the lobbying efforts of his wife and his mother. Upon his release, March 22, 1933, Buck Barrow, in the company of Blanche, joined his younger brother Clyde, Bonnie Parker, and W. D. Jones in Joplin, Missouri where he participated in several armed robberies. On April 13, 1933, Buck, Clyde, and W. D. Jones participated in a shootout with law enforcement officers at Joplin, Missouri. Two officers, Newton County Constable Wes Harryman and Joplin City Motor Detective Harry McGinnis, were killed. On June 23, 1933, Buck and W. D. Jones killed Alma, Arkansas City Marshal Henry D. Humphrey
Blanche Barrow to back away from the front of the garage door, thereby freeing an escape route for the gang's car. Buck and Blanche had to leave the cover of their cabin as their cabin had no door leading into the garage as did the cabin occupied by Barrow, Parker and Jones. and thus exposed, were targeted by the posse, Buck fell with a through and through wound entering his left temple, traveling the inner surface of the front portion of his skull, and out of his right temple. Blanche stopped and while under fire dragged him into the car, helped by