The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . . This Day in History - December 16th

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Lest we forget...  

 

 

Deputy Collector James M. Anderson United States Department of the..., US EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1863 Cause of Death: Drowned Inspector William B. Goodell United States Department of the..., US EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1863 Cause of Death: Drowned Sergeant Charles Shavehead United States Department of the..., US EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1890 Cause of Death: Gunfire Constable F. M. Ledbetter Morris County Constable's Offic..., TX EOW: Friday, December 16, 1892 Cause of Death: Gunfire City Marshal Willis Dearing DeSoto Police Department, MO EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1897 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Raphael A. Girard Hannibal Police Department, MO EOW: Sunday, December 16, 1900 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff William Henry Rafford Suffolk County Sheriff's Depart..., NY EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1903 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Benjamin Franklin Fox Mexico Police Department, MO EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1908 Cause of Death: Duty related illness Police Officer Robert E. Yates Plant City Police Department, FL EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1911 Cause of Death: Gunfire Undersheriff Orville Bittle Rosebud County Sheriff's Depart..., MT EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1911 Cause of Death: Gunfire Undersheriff Robert Squires Orange County Sheriff's Department, CA EOW: Monday, December 16, 1912 Cause of Death: Gunfire City Marshal James Coats Pryor Police Department, OK EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1914 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman John C. Burke Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1915 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Charles E. McIntosh Portland Police Department, ME EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1915 Cause of Death: Gunfire Mounted Patrolman Richard Ell Cincinnati Police Division, OH EOW: Monday, December 16, 1918 Cause of Death: Gunfire              Chief of Police Charles Chester Jackson Des Moines Police Department, IA EOW: Monday, December 16, 1918 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Frank Mansfield Kansas City Police Department, MO EOW: Monday, December 16, 1918 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Patrolman Charles R. Conlon Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1920 Cause of Death: Gunfire Lieutenant Floyd Horton New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1920 Cause of Death: Gunfire Special Agent Richard W. Jackson United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1920 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman M. McDonagh Los Angeles Police Department, CA EOW: Sunday, December 16, 1923 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Game Warden Joseph J. Powell Virginia Department of Game and..., VA EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1924 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Frank P. Cook Philadelphia Police Department, PA EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1925 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman John W. Leiter Kansas City Police Department, MO EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1926 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Patrolman Francis Kowalski Chester Police Department, PA EOW: Monday, December 16, 1929 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Thomas C. Tackett Pike County Sheriff's Department, KY EOW: Monday, December 16, 1929 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Henry Austin (Texas) Tate Chickasha Police Department, OK EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1930 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Wendell Fay Dilworth Black Hawk County Sheriff's Dep..., IA EOW: Friday, December 16, 1932 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Audie Lee Gibson Hamilton County Sheriff's Depar..., TX EOW: Friday, December 16, 1932 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Daniel E. Souders Hamilton County Sheriff's Depar..., OH EOW: Friday, December 16, 1932 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Ira Leon Evans Minneapolis Police Department, MN EOW: Friday, December 16, 1932 Cause of Death: Gunfire              Deputy Sheriff Grover Cleveland Stringer McDowell County Sheriff's Depar..., WV EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1933 Cause of Death: Gunfire Captain Loren G. Ray Washington State Patrol, WA EOW: Sunday, December 16, 1934 Cause of Death: Fall Officer Scott Vernon Smith Monrovia Police Department, CA EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1939 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit Patrol Officer Raymond Haley Jenkins Valdosta Police Department, GA EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1941 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Sergeant Abb Kimball Fleming Kenbridge Police Department, VA EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1943 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Samuel M. Black Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1944 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Ezra Caldwell Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1944 Cause of Death: Gunfire Trooper Maurice R. Plummer Kansas Highway Patrol, KS EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1944 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Policeman Herbert McClanahan Murfreesboro Police Department, TN EOW: Monday, December 16, 1946 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Charles Kessler Port of New York Authority Poli..., NY EOW: Sunday, December 16, 1951 Cause of Death: Accidental Officer Thomas A. Robinson Jr. Jacksonville Police Department, FL EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1953 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Andrew R. Morales Honolulu Police Department, HI EOW: Monday, December 16, 1963 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Abraham J. Mahiko Honolulu Police Department, HI EOW: Monday, December 16, 1963 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Arthur J. Lavender Jr. El Paso Police Department, TX EOW: Friday, December 16, 1966 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Detective Frank H. Soukup Lincoln Police Department, NE EOW: Friday, December 16, 1966 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Gerald Williams Colorado State Patrol, CO EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1967 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Deputy Sheriff Milton C. Starkey Grant County Sheriff's Department, IN EOW: Monday, December 16, 1974 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Officer Alfred Ray Turner California Highway Patrol, CA EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1975 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Wesley John Smith Charleston Police Department, SC EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1975 Cause of Death: Automobile accident               Police Officer Matthew Francis Giglio Nassau County Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1975 Cause of Death: Gunfire Corporal William L. Daniels Philadelphia Police Department, PA EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 1975 Cause of Death: Gunfire Trooper Donald E. Shea Massachusetts State Police, MA EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1978 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Patrolman Fulgencio Velasco III Mission Police Department, TX EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1978 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Daniel J. Greer Nassau County Police Department, NY EOW: Sunday, December 16, 1979 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Police Officer Anthony J. Abruzzo Jr. New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1981 Cause of Death: Gunfire Special Agent Charles L. Ellington United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1982 Cause of Death: Aircraft accident Special Agent Terry Burnett Hereford United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1982 Cause of Death: Aircraft accident Special Agent Michael James Lynch United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1982 Cause of Death: Aircraft accident Special Agent Robert W. Conners United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1982 Cause of Death: Aircraft accident Corporal Carlen Bill Stone West Virginia State Police, WV EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1982 Cause of Death: Aircraft accident Police Officer David Charles Schmid Los Angeles Police Department, CA EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1992 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident              Narcotics Officer Ronald Edward Dean Jr. Shreveport Police Department, LA EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1992 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Frank Wilkinson Jr. United States Department of Def..., US EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1993 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Sergeant Gregory Phillip Howard Floyd County Police Department, GA EOW: Friday, December 16, 1994 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Detective Frank T. DiNapoli Co-op City Department of Public..., NY EOW: Saturday, December 16, 1995 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Constable Raymond Nieto Harris County Constable's Offic..., TX EOW: Wednesday, December 16, 1998 Cause of Death: Heart attack               Corrections Officer II Wilmot A. Burnett Texas Department of Criminal Ju..., TX EOW: Thursday, December 16, 1999 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown DeKalb County Sheriff's Department, GA EOW: Saturday, December 16, 2000 Cause of Death: Gunfire Border Patrol Agent James Paul Epling United States Department of Hom..., US EOW: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 Cause of Death: Drowned

 

The brave officers listed here were killed on this date in history.

Their sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Total Line of Duty Deaths: 70
Accidental: 1
Aircraft accident: 5
Automobile accident: 5
Drowned: 3
Duty related illness: 1
Fall: 1
Gunfire: 42
Heart attack: 1
Motorcycle accident: 4
Struck by vehicle: 3
Vehicle pursuit: 1
Vehicular assault: 3