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

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Lest we forget...  

 

Jailer Charlie A. Batts Bastrop County Sheriff's Office, TX EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 1879 Cause of Death: Weather/Natural disaster Officer Eugene Barker Newport Police Department, RI EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 1884 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Robert J. Rusk Spokane Police Department, WA EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1886 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer William Kime Coffeyville Police Department, KS EOW: Friday, April 22, 1898 Cause of Death: Gunfire Constable Ernest Milton Howell Winn Parish Sheriff's Office, LA EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1916 Cause of Death: Unidentified Patrolman Isaac Fenno Kansas City Police Department, MO EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 1919 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Bernard C. Mengel St. Louis Police Department, MO EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1922 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Michael O'Connor St. Louis Police Department, MO EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1922 Cause of Death: Gunfire Detective Sergeant Francis P. Baker New York City Police Department, NY EOW: Sunday, April 22, 1923 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit Patrolman Troy C. Stewart Columbus Division of Police, OH EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 1924 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Anthony Siemon Newport Police Department, KY EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 1924 Cause of Death: Stabbed Deputy Sheriff William Pape Gillespie County Sheriff's Office, TX EOW: Sunday, April 22, 1928 Cause of Death: Gunfire Chief of Police John Hunley Prestonburg Police Department, KY EOW: Monday, April 22, 1929 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Floyd Winningham Pickett County Sheriff's Depart..., TN EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1933 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sheriff Walter Warren Hollingsworth Coryell County Sheriff's Depart..., TX EOW: Sunday, April 22, 1934 Cause of Death: Assault Special Agent W. Carter Baum United States Department of Jus..., US EOW: Sunday, April 22, 1934 Cause of Death: Gunfire Trooper Richard F. England Indiana State Police, IN EOW: Wednesday, April 22, 1942 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Patrolman Milton L. Hodder Hamden Police Department, CT EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1943 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Constable Harry Hunt Ojai Police Department, CA EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1943 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Rufus H. Rodgers Aiken Department of Public Safety, SC EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1950 Cause of Death: Gunfire Trooper Herbert E. Nixon Mississippi Department of Publi..., MS EOW: Sunday, April 22, 1951 Cause of Death: Automobile accident              Deputy Sheriff Joseph Elmer Whitworth Escambia County Sheriff's Office, FL EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1954 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sheriff James Vardman Polk Marion County Sheriff's Department, MS EOW: Friday, April 22, 1960 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman George J. Woerhle Stockton Police Department, CA EOW: Friday, April 22, 1960 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Alonzo Brownlow Tyler Hancock County Sheriff's Depart..., TN EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1961 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Alex Gary Morris Sr. Hancock County Sheriff's Depart..., TN EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1961 Cause of Death: Gunfire Chief of Police P. A. Goyne New Salem Police Department, ND EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1971 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Emery Grant Mabry Carroll County Sheriff's Office, VA EOW: Monday, April 22, 1974 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Martin Douglas Chivas Troy Police Department, MI EOW: Monday, April 22, 1974 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Mark Claude Featherstone Calvert County Sheriff's Office, MD EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1976 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Police Officer Arthur Del Gaudio Jr. Phoenix Police Department, AZ EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1976 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit Police Officer James M. Richardson II York Police Department, NE EOW: Friday, April 22, 1977 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Daniel J. Hughes Oakland Police Department, NJ EOW: Saturday, April 22, 1978 Cause of Death: Assault Deputy Sheriff Willard Pope Hill Robertson County Sheriff's Depa..., TN EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 1980 Cause of Death: Aircraft accident Police Officer Euel Thomas Smith Bibb County Board of Education ..., GA EOW: Friday, April 22, 1983 Cause of Death: Gunfire              Patrol Officer Aubrey Eugene McCurry Myrtle Point Police Department, OR EOW: Friday, April 22, 1988 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault             Patrolman Ryan Christopher Johnson Sr. Prince George's County Police D..., MD EOW: Wednesday, April 22, 1992 Cause of Death: Gunfire Parole Officer Theodore R. Clark Jr. New York State Division of Parole, NY EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1993 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Trooper III William Schoenberger Wisconsin State Patrol, WI EOW: Thursday, April 22, 1993 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Police Officer Aaron Jovon Blount Fulton County Police Department, GA EOW: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 Cause of Death: Gunfire

 

 

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

Total Line of Duty Deaths: 40
Aircraft accident: 1
Assault: 2
Automobile accident: 5
Gunfire: 25
Stabbed: 1
Unidentified: 1
Vehicle pursuit: 2
Vehicular assault: 2
Weather/Natural disaster: 1