The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . . This Day in History - April 18th

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Lest we forget...  

 

 

Policeman David C. Crandell Capital Police District, NY EOW: Saturday, April 18, 1868 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sheriff John W. Love Limestone County Sheriff's Depa..., TX EOW: Wednesday, April 18, 1877 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Max Fenner San Francisco Police Department, CA EOW: Wednesday, April 18, 1906 Cause of Death: Weather/Natural disaster Night Marshal Pleasant Eugene Holt Villa Rica Police Department, GA EOW: Saturday, April 18, 1908 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sergeant William I. Campbell Little Rock Police Department, AR EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1911 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer George C. Sauer Baltimore City Police Department, MD EOW: Sunday, April 18, 1915 Cause of Death: Gunfire Night Watchman John H. Gates Medina City Police Department, OH EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1916 Cause of Death: Gunfire Chief of Police Clem Long Pine Grove Police Department, WV EOW: Friday, April 18, 1919 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Otto W. Runde St. Louis County Sheriff's Office, MO EOW: Friday, April 18, 1919 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer William G. Lochner Jr. Maryland State Police, MD EOW: Wednesday, April 18, 1923 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit Detective Sergeant Matthew Hauer Flint Police Department, MI EOW: Friday, April 18, 1924 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman David A. Moehler East St. Louis Police Department, IL EOW: Saturday, April 18, 1925 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman John J. Watson Philadelphia Police Department, PA EOW: Monday, April 18, 1927 Cause of Death: Exposure to toxins Patrolman Thompson Richardson Aurora Police Department, IL EOW: Wednesday, April 18, 1928 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Emil Shogren Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Wednesday, April 18, 1928 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman Lewis Long Los Angeles Police Department, CA EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1929 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Officer William S. Buchanan Metropolitan Police Department, DC EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1929 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident             Chief of Police James Washington Kirwin Crisfield Police Department, MD EOW: Friday, April 18, 1930 Cause of Death: Assault Chief of Police Grover C. Butler Tecumseh Police Department, OK EOW: Monday, April 18, 1932 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Arthur D. Mutter Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1933 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Albert Liptak Yonkers Police Department, NY EOW: Monday, April 18, 1938 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Constable Adolf Gordon Jacobson Superior Police Department, WI EOW: Friday, April 18, 1941 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Louis Box Rocky Ford Police Department, CO EOW: Wednesday, April 18, 1945 Cause of Death: Stabbed Patrolman Bill J. Mahoney Texas Department of Public Safe..., TX EOW: Monday, April 18, 1949 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Police Officer Leonard M. Steinkuhler Lockport Police Department, NY EOW: Sunday, April 18, 1954 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Undersheriff Roy Hodges Park County Sheriff's Department, MT EOW: Sunday, April 18, 1954 Cause of Death: Heart attack Special Agent Richard Purcell Horan United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1957 Cause of Death: Gunfire Detective Roy A. Carney Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Friday, April 18, 1958 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Dennis R. Fremin New Orleans Police Department, LA EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1961 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Officer Roger L. Davies Portland Police Bureau, OR EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1961 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Patrolman Ernest Milton Brockman Bridgeton Police Department, MO EOW: Monday, April 18, 1966 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Detective Richard F. Bosak Baltimore City Police Department, MD EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1968 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Larry D. Oliver Kansas City Police Department, MO EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1968 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Deputy Bill H. Miller Nez Perce County Sheriff's Depa..., ID EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1968 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit             Corrections Employee Rufus C. Campbell Illinois Department of Corrections, IL EOW: Saturday, April 18, 1970 Cause of Death: Assault Policeman Carlos M. Carrer-Rivera Puerto Rico Police Department, PR EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1972 Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)                Chief Deputy Sheriff Albert Edwin Cooke Waller County Sheriff's Department, TX EOW: Friday, April 18, 1975 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Gregory A. Raynor Clark County Sheriff's Office, OH EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1978 Cause of Death: Gunfire Corporal John R. Christian Jr. Harrisburg Police Department, PA EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1978 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Thomas H. Pohlman Los Angeles County Sheriff's De..., CA EOW: Tuesday, April 18, 1978 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Jose A. Zamarron Houston Police Department, TX EOW: Saturday, April 18, 1981 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Deputy Richard John Landes Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, FL EOW: Saturday, April 18, 1981 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Corporal Julius Norman Schulte Mobile Police Department, AL EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1985 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Billy Wayne Simms Fort Smith Police Department, AR EOW: Friday, April 18, 1986 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle             Special Agent James Kenneth McAllister United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Friday, April 18, 1986 Cause of Death: Fall Deputy Sheriff Melvin P. Brown Jr. Leflore County Sheriff's Depart..., MS EOW: Monday, April 18, 1994 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Stacia Suzanne Alyea Shelby County Sheriff's Department, IN EOW: Thursday, April 18, 1996 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit             Patrol Sergeant Kenneth Eugene Snider Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office, KS EOW: Friday, April 18, 1997 Cause of Death: Stabbed

 

The brave officers listed here were killed on this date in history. Their sacrifices will never be forgotten.

Total Line of Duty Deaths: 48
Assault: 2
Automobile accident: 5
Exposure to toxins: 1
Fall: 1
Gunfire: 24
Gunfire (Accidental): 1
Heart attack: 1
Motorcycle accident: 3
Stabbed: 2
Struck by vehicle: 3
Vehicle pursuit: 3
Vehicular assault: 1
Weather/Natural disaster: 1