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Tag: Duty Deaths
Patrol
FBI Reports 2023 Saw 10-Year High of Assaults on Officers
Agencies providing data to LEOKA reported 79,091 officers were assaulted in 2023. Most officer assaults occurred when responding to simple assaults against a non-officer (6,783 incidents), followed by drug/narcotic violations (4,879).
May 15, 2024
Special Units
Radio Timeline Released of Charlotte Shootout That Killed 4 Officers
Two hours of police dispatches describe when the shootout in east Charlotte started, how officers responded, their frantic calls to close miles of roads to rush the wounded to local hospitals and a surprise about who was in the house.
May 14, 2024
Investigations
Man Arrested in Connection with Murder of Off-Duty Chicago Officer
Chicago officers and the U.S. Marshals Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force arrested 22-year-old Xavier Tate Jr. for first-degree murder in Glendale Heights, Illinois, on Wednesday night.
May 2, 2024
Patrol
Biden Plans to Meet with Slain North Carolina Officers’ Families
The president is expected to meet with the families of the slain law enforcement officers in Charlotte on Thursday.
May 1, 2024
Patrol
Los Angeles County Deputy Dies After Being Found Unresponsive at Station
An ambulance was dispatched to the South Los Angeles station around 4 p.m. on calls of an unresponsive deputy.
April 29, 2024
Patrol
Texas Sheriff’s Investigator Fatally Struck After Stopping to Help at Crash
A white Chevrolet truck was nearing the deputy's patrol vehicle and attempted to swerve to avoid it. Still, the Chevrolet hit the deputy despite the deputy trying to get out of the way, the sheriff said.
April 24, 2024
Patrol
Murder of Chicago Officer Driving Home from Shift Will be Classified Line of Duty
The death of Officer Luis M. Huesca will be classified as line of duty. Huesca was driving home from his shift Sunday when he was slain in an apparent carjacking.
April 23, 2024
Command
Retired Kentucky Chief Serving as Sergeant on Same Agency He Commanded Dies from Medical Emergency
Winchester Police say William Marty Jackson II served in law enforcement for 50 years and was chief of police from 1989 to 2008.
April 17, 2024
Patrol
Indiana Deputy Killed by Downed Power Lines Responding to Crash
According to Hendricks County Sheriff Jack Sadler, Deputy Fred Fislar was responding to a single-vehicle accident around 11:50 p.m. where a passenger car hit a utility pole, leaving low-hanging electrical wires near the crash site.
April 16, 2024
Patrol
Nebraska Officer Killed During Traffic Stop Crash
Officer Ross Bartlett’s vehicle was stopped and performing a traffic stop involving a Nissan sedan around 7:37 p.m. when a Ford pickup truck hit the rear of his patrol unit pushing it into the sedan.
April 15, 2024
Patrol
2 New York Officers Shot and Killed Sunday in Gun Battle
Sheriff Toby Shelly said Lt. Michael Hoosock was seeking cover in an adjacent yard when he was ambushed and killed. The suspect reportedly fired on him with an AR-15 rifle from an open deck at the rear of his residence.
April 15, 2024
Patrol
Memphis Officer Killed in Friday Morning Shootout
Police say the incident began with a call about a "suspicious vehicle.” As officers approached the vehicle, the department said the officers were shot at and then "returned fire." Officer Joseph McKinney and two other officers were shot.
April 12, 2024
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