Officers Killed on This Day in History – October 31st: Total Line of Duty Deaths: 55 Assault: 2 Automobile accident: 2 Drowned: 2 Explosion: 1 Gunfire: 33 Gunfire (Accidental): 2 Heart attack: 2 Motorcycle accident: 1 Stabbed: 1 Struck by train: 1 Struck by vehicle: 4 Vehicle pursuit: 1 Vehicular assault: 3 By State: Alabama: 3 California: 3 Colorado: 1 Florida: 3 Guam: 1 Illinois: 2 Kansas: 1 Kentucky: 4 Maryland: 2 Massachusetts: 1 Michigan: 1 Missouri: 4 Nevada: 1 New Jersey: 1 New York: 3 North Carolina: 3 Ohio: 1 Oklahoma: 1 Panama Canal Zone: 1 Pennsylvania: 2 Puerto Rico: 1 South Carolina: 1 Tennessee: 4 Texas: 2 U.S. Government: 1 Virginia: 2 Washington: 1 Wisconsin: 1 Wyoming: 3 Keeper James Gastin Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, PA EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1844 Cause of Death: Assault Patrolman Patrick J. Treanor New York Municipal Police Department, NY EOW: Monday, October 31, 1887 Cause of Death: Struck by train Deputy Sheriff Walter S. Haley Henry County Sheriffs Department, TN EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1896 Cause of Death: Gunfire Constable Henry Phelps Lenox Constables Office, NY EOW: Friday, October 31, 1902 Cause of Death: Drowned Chief of Police George A. Airey Morgan Park Police Department, IL EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1903 Cause of Death: Stabbed Deputy Sheriff Louis Falkenburg Weston County Sheriffs Office, WY EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1903 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Redden George Purdie Shelbyville Police Department, TN EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 1911 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Charles Armstrong Henry Shelbyville Police Department, TN EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 1911 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Ashville T. Williamson Norfolk Police Department, VA EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1918 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer George E. Geisler St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, MO EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1920 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman Richie Rose Denver Police Department, CO EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 1922 Cause of Death: Gunfire Captain Dillon Duncan Brooke Dade County Sheriffs Department, FL EOW: Friday, October 31, 1924 Cause of Death: Explosion Detective Charles Dewitt Hammond Muskegon Police Department, MI EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1925 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Joseph Nichols Newark Police Department, NJ EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1925 Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident Sergeant Floyd A. Beardsley Chicago Police Department, IL EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1926 Cause of Death: Gunfire Captain John M. Cash Palm Beach Police Department, FL EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1926 Cause of Death: Drowned Police Officer Robert Jackson Tulsa Police Department, OK EOW: Monday, October 31, 1927 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff John Allen Pegram Rockingham County Sheriffs Office, NC EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1929 Cause of Death: Assault Patrolman Bennie F. Williams Richmond Police Department, VA EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1931 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer William Sherfie Pete Peterson Akron Police Department, OH EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 1933 Cause of Death: Vehicle pursuit Patrolman Leo Bajerski Lancaster Police Department, NY EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 1933 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Arthur H. Malinofski Baltimore City Police Department, MD EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1935 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Edward DeFord Mobile Police Department, AL EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1935 Cause of Death: Gunfire Agent Bill Lakanen Wyoming Department of Game and Fish, WY EOW: Wednesday, October 31, 1945 Cause of Death: Gunfire Agent Don Simpson Wyoming Department of Game and Fish, WY EOW: Wednesday, October 31, 1945 Cause of Death: Gunfire Patrolman Peter Hugh Carroll Eureka Police Department, CA EOW: Friday, October 31, 1947 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Chief of Police Charles F. Elliott Louellen Police Department, KY EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1948 Cause of Death: Gunfire Wildlife Officer William I. Wright, Jr. North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, NC EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1948 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Vernon Brooks Carvin Carson City Sheriffs Office, NV EOW: Monday, October 31, 1949 Cause of Death: Heart attack Deputy Sheriff Creed John Johnson Lewis County Sheriffs Department, KY EOW: Friday, October 31, 1952 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sheriff John Thomas Wells Pender County Sheriffs Office, NC EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1953 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Leo G. Hamel Springfield Police Department, MA EOW: Monday, October 31, 1955 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Lieutenant Robert J. Staab Bal Harbour Police Department, FL EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1957 Cause of Death: Gunfire Policeman George F. Nadeau, Sr. Panama Canal Zone Police Department, CZ EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1957 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Patrolman Nick A. Klaske Fond du Lac Police Department, WI EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 1961 Cause of Death: Gunfire Conservation Officer Francisco Malijan Isezaki Guam Department of Agriculture - Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources, GU EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1964 Cause of Death: Gunfire Chief of Police Eli M. Myers Dublin Borough Police Department, PA EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1965 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Deputy Sheriff Waylon W. Sewell Shelby County Sheriffs Office, AL EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1965 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Claude V. Sutherline, Jr. Greenville County Sheriffs Office, SC EOW: Monday, October 31, 1966 Cause of Death: Automobile accident Lieutenant David Joe Kraxner Independence Police Department, MO EOW: Monday, October 31, 1966 Cause of Death: Gunfire Sheriff Raymond Warf Letcher County Sheriffs Department, KY EOW: Saturday, October 31, 1970 Cause of Death: Heart attack Private First Class James Presley Boyd, Jr. United States Army Military Police Corps, US EOW: Wednesday, October 31, 1973 Cause of Death: Gunfire Detective Roy Vance Johnson Sedgwick County Sheriffs Office, KS EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1974 Cause of Death: Gunfire Deputy Sheriff Michael Wilson Erwin Tipton County Sheriffs Office, TN EOW: Friday, October 31, 1975 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Police Officer Robert D. Patterson Birmingham Police Department, AL EOW: Sunday, October 31, 1982 Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental) Detective Thomas C. Williams Los Angeles Police Department, CA EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1985 Cause of Death: Gunfire Narcotics Investigator Manuel Abelardo Segovia, Jr. Hidalgo County Sheriffs Office, TX EOW: Friday, October 31, 1986 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Paul Giles Boirie Puerto Rico Police Department, PR EOW: Monday, October 31, 1988 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Thomas Crouch Maryland Toll Facilities Police Department, MD EOW: Thursday, October 31, 1991 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Officer Michael A. Osornio La Habra Police Department, CA EOW: Monday, October 31, 1994 Cause of Death: Vehicular assault Sergeant Richard Eric Weinhold St. Louis County Police Department, MO EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 2000 Cause of Death: Gunfire Police Officer Amy Lynn Donovan Austin Police Department, TX EOW: Sunday, October 31, 2004 Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle Master Police Officer David George Whitson Bowling Green Police Department, KY EOW: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental) Sergeant Michael R. King University City Police Department, MO EOW: Friday, October 31, 2008 Cause of Death: Gunfire Officer Timothy Q. Brenton Seattle Police Department, WA EOW: Saturday, October 31, 2009 Cause of Death: Gunfire
Posted on: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:39:29 +0000
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