Career
Kelly was a killer so skilled with a tommy gun that he could allegedly stitch his name in.45-caliber bullets. 1408 Rayner Street in the early hours of September 26, 1933. The police crept up to the front door, slowly opened it, and stepped inside.
Coming out of the bathroom was George Kelly Barnes.
Caught without a weapon, Kelly supposedly cried, "Don’t shoot, G-Men! Don’t shoot, G-Men!" as he surrendered to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and Memphis police. Waterson retired from the Memphis Police Department and moved to California with his family.
He had one son, Steven Waterson, who is still living and resides in Memphis, Tennessee.