The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . . This Day in History - January 22nd

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Lest we forget...  

 

Officer Edgar P. Wright Pierce City Police Department, MO EOW: Thursday, January 22, 1891 Cause of Death: Gunfire City Marshal Hatch York Weimar Police Department, TX EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1896 Cause of Death: Gunfire Night Captain William C. Rooney Colorado Department of Corrections, CO EOW: Monday, January 22, 1900 Cause of Death: Stabbed Officer Eugene C. Robinson San Francisco Police Department, CA EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1902 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff G. T. Cole McCurtain County Sheriff's Office, OK EOW: Monday, January 22, 1917 Cause of Death: Gunfire Chief of Police Wat G. Snuggs Norwood Police Department, NC EOW: Monday, January 22, 1917 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Jay D. Munn Rock Island Police Department, IL EOW: Monday, January 22, 1917 Cause of Death: Fall Officer George A. Sims Birmingham Police Department, AL EOW: Tuesday, January 22, 1918 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman William G. Clancy Boston Police Department, MA EOW: Thursday, January 22, 1920 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Don Stephenson Colbert County Sheriff's Depart..., AL EOW: Saturday, January 22, 1921 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman Arthur Cruse Los Angeles Police Department, CA EOW: Monday, January 22, 1923 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Barney Jasper Kansas City Police Department, MO EOW: Tuesday, January 22, 1924 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Christopher M. Dean Mobile Police Department, AL EOW: Friday, January 22, 1926 Cause of Death: Gunfire Detective Harvey Edgar Correll Charlotte Police Department, NC EOW: Tuesday, January 22, 1929 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sergeant John Brame Fresno Police Department, CA EOW: Thursday, January 22, 1931 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman James E. Roughen Savannah Police Department, GA EOW: Monday, January 22, 1934 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Charles Benjamin Tune Gainesville Police Department, TX EOW: Tuesday, January 22, 1935 Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental) Policeman Jaime Matos-Rodriguez Puerto Rico Police Department, PR EOW: Tuesday, January 22, 1935 Cause of Death: Unidentified Correctional Officer Frank L. Russell Montana Department of Correctio..., MT EOW: Saturday, January 22, 1938 Cause of Death: Unidentified Patrolman Christopher J. Hughes New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Friday, January 22, 1943 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman Ernesto Torres-Rivera Puerto Rico Police Department, PR EOW: Saturday, January 22, 1944 Cause of Death: Unidentified Patrolman John H. Hawthorn Louisville Police Department, KY EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1947 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Investigator Floyd Fenwick Vincent Virginia Department of Alcoholi..., VA EOW: Sunday, January 22, 1950 Cause of Death: Gunfire Trooper William Gordon Barnes Tennessee Highway Patrol, TN EOW: Saturday, January 22, 1966 Cause of Death: Automobile accident             Police Officer Harry Lorain Conyers Jr. Clearwater Police Department, FL EOW: Sunday, January 22, 1967 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident             Deputy Sheriff Milton Raymond Smalling Imperial County Sheriff's Office, CA EOW: Sunday, January 22, 1967 Cause of Death: Unidentified Trooper William C. Keller Delaware State Police, DE EOW: Friday, January 22, 1971 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Patrolman Robert Bolden New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Friday, January 22, 1971 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sergeant John F. Connor Sr. Cochran Police Department, GA EOW: Saturday, January 22, 1972 Cause of Death: Unidentified Town Marshal Kenneth Byron Hale Jr. Lizton Police Department, IN EOW: Tuesday, January 22, 1974 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Deputy Sheriff Paul Emerson Baker Yamhill County Sheriff's Office, OR EOW: Friday, January 22, 1982 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Trooper James H. Savage Connecticut State Police, CT EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1986 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Patrolman Sam Gray Bulloch III LaGrange Police Department, GA EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1986 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Ranger Stanley Keith Guffey Texas Department of Public Safe..., TX EOW: Thursday, January 22, 1987 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Harold Lee Hammons Dallas Police Department, TX EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1992 Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental) Officer Arthur Paul Parga Stockton Police Department, CA EOW: Friday, January 22, 1993 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Willie Henry Pryor Montgomery Police Department, AL EOW: Sunday, January 22, 1995 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Sergeant G. J. Jordon Shelbyville Police Department, TN EOW: Sunday, January 22, 1995 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Trooper James Brian Malloy Massachusetts State Police, MA EOW: Wednesday, January 22, 1997 Cause of Death: Heart attack

 

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

Their sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Total Line of Duty Deaths: 39
Automobile accident: 6
Fall: 1
Gunfire: 19
Gunfire (Accidental): 2
Heart attack: 1
Motorcycle accident: 3
Stabbed: 1
Struck by vehicle: 1
Unidentified: 5