Deputy Sheriff Blane Lane was shot and killed while serving a felony arrest warrant in Polk City at about 3:00 am. He and three other deputies were invited into the subject’s trailer to serve the failure to appear warrant for […]
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Police Officer Steve Nothem was killed when his patrol car was struck by a vehicle while he was assisting another officer conducting a DUI investigation in the westbound lanes of President George Bush Turnpike, near Josey Lane, at about 10:25 […]
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Captain Terry Arnold suffered a fatal heart attack after responding to a fight between two students at Cook County High School in Adel. While taking one of the juveniles into custody, Captain Arnold collapsed. Medical personnel rendered aid, and he […]
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Sergeant Meagan Burke was killed in an on-duty vehicle crash on I-44 at about 12:34 am. She was traveling northbound when a southbound vehicle crossed the median and struck her vehicle head-on in the area of SW 29th Street. She […]
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Detention Corporal Gregory Horne succumbed to a pulmonary embolism from lack of activity after falling during training at the Edgecombe County Sheriff’s Office Training Center in Pinetops. During the training exercise, Corporal Horne jumped a 4-foot fence and fractured his […]
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Master Police Officer Tyrrell Owens-Riley suffered a fatal heart attack while participating in the physical fitness training portion of the department’s SWAT Team assessment. He was transported to Providence Hospital after exhibiting symptoms of a heart attack. Once at the […]
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Senior Patrol Officer Tony Martin was killed in a motorcycle crash at the intersection of State Highway 29 and RM 1869 in Liberty Hill at 6 am. Officer Martin was traveling westbound on State Highway 26 when a vehicle traveling […]
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Deputy Sheriff Michael Hartwick succumbed to injuries received when he was struck by a front-end loader truck at I-275 and Ulmerton Road, near the Howard Frankland Bridge at 10:30 pm. Deputy Hartwick was working an overnight assignment directing traffic for […]
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Police Officer Seara Burton succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained while conducting a traffic stop on August 10th, 2022. Other officers had requested her assistance to stop a moped being driven by a narcotics suspect in the 200 block of […]
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Police Officer Mike Todd succumbed to complications of gunshot wounds sustained on December 5th, 1998, by gunfire at Nashville Street and Westphalia Street in Detroit at 11:10 pm. Officer Todd and two other plainclothes officers were attempting to stop a […]
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Captain Janelle Sanders died as the result of cancer that she developed following her assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. Captain Sanders had served with the New York […]
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Police Officer Michael Vakoff was shot and killed while responding to a domestic disturbance in the 6700 block of W. 51st Avenue at about 1:40 am. He and another officer were attempting to break up a fight between the family […]
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