Kansas Law Enforcement Heroes
Stacy Annette Murrow
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Linn CountyCounty: LinnDeath Date: 12/27/2021Added to Memorial: 2022Circumstances of Death: COVID-19 Stacy Annette Murrow, age 49, a 21-year veteran sheriff’s deputy with the Linn County Sheriff’s Office, had been...
Theodore James Ohlemeier
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ColwichCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 12/8/2021Added to Memorial: 20222Circumstances of Death: COVID-19 Theodore James Ohlemeier, age 58, a 33-year veteran police officer served with the City of Colwich for the past three...
Kerry Dean Dick
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: RossvilleCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 11/29/2021Added to Memorial: 2022Circumstances of Death: COVID-19 Kerry Dean Dick, age 53, served with the City of Rossville as a part-time police officer for 14 years. During early...
Stephen Mark Evans
Type of Officer: Police Officer/Sheriff's DeputyJurisdiction: Burns Police DepartmentCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 10/25/2021Added to Memorial: 2022Circumstances of Death: Vehicle Crash Stephen Mark Evans, age 44, served as a deputy with the Butler County Sheriff’s Office...
Freddie Joe Castro
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Overland ParkCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 8/31/2021Added to Memorial: 2022Circumstances of Death: COVID-19 Freddie Joe Castro, age 23, served as a police officer with the City of Overland Park for 2 years and had been...
Allan Weber
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Gove CountyCounty: Gove Death Date: 12/18/2020Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: COVID-19Sheriff Allan Weber, age 63, a 24-year veteran Sheriff, had been working for several months in the Gove County Emergency...
Daniel R. Abramovitz
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Leavenworth CountyCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 10/30/2020Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death:On the late afternoon of October 30, 2020, Deputy Corporal Daniel Abramovitz, age 59, while operating his patrol...
Olufela A. Adebiyi
Type of Officer: Corrections SupervisorJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 5/12/2020Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: COVID-19Kansas Department of Corrections Supervisor Olufela Adebiyi, age 59, a 20-year veteran correctional officer at...
George B. Robare
Type of Officer: Corrections SupervisorJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 5/11/2020Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: COVID-19Kansas Department of Corrections Supervisor George Robare, age 61, a 36-year veteran correctional officer at the...
Michael S. Mosher
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Overland ParkCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 5/3/2020Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: While on his way to work for his duty patrol shift on May 3, 2020, Overland Park police officer Michael Mosher, age 37, came...
Robert Kenneth Kunze, III
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 9/16/2018Added to Memorial: 2019Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn September 16, 2018, Deputy Robert Kunze was dispatched to a suspicious character call in rural northwest Sedgwick...
Theresa Sue King
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 6/16/2018Added to Memorial: 2009Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn June 15, 2018, Deputies Theresa King and Patrick Rohrer were transporting a prisoner from a court hearing back...
Patrick Thomas Rohrer
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 6/15/2018Added to Memorial: 2009Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn June 15, 2018, Deputies Patrick Rohrer and Theresa King were transporting a prisoner from a court hearing back...
Brandon S. Collins
Type of Officer: Master Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Johnson CountyCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 9/11/2016Added to Memorial: 2017Circumstances of Death: Blunt Force TraumaOn September 11, 2016 was killed after initiating a traffic stop on U.S. 69 Highway in Overland Park....
Robert D. Melton
Type of Officer: Police CaptainJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 07/19/2016Added to Memorial: 2017Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn July 19, 2016, Kansas City, Kansas Police Captain Robert Melton #1799 was killed by gunfire. On aforementioned date,...
Brad Lancaster
Type of Officer: Police DetectiveJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 05/09/2016Added to Memorial: 2017Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn May 19, 2016, Kansas City, Kansas Police Detective Brad Lancaster #1912 was killed by gunfire. On aforementioned...
Kent Newport
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: MaizeCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 10/27/2014Added to Memorial: 2016Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackTechnical Trooper Kent Newport died on October 27, 2014, after assisting in the capture of a burglary suspect...
Jason E. Harwood
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 9/7/2014Added to Memorial: 2015Circumstances of Death: GunshotTopeka Police Department Corporal Jason E. Harwood gave his life In the line of duty on September 7, 2014. While conducting a...
David Gogian
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 12/16/2012Added to Memorial: 2013Circumstances of Death: GunshotTopeka Police Department Corporal David Gogian was shot and killed on December 16, 2012, after responding to the parking lot...
Jeffrey Atherly
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 12/16/2012Added to Memorial: 2013Circumstances of Death: GunshotTopeka Police Department Officer Jeffrey Atherly was shot and killed on December 16, 2012, after responding to the parking lot...
David Enzbrenner
Type of Officer: Police SergeantJurisdiction: AtchisonCounty: AtchisonDeath Date: 12/09/2011Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Gunshot On Friday, December 9, 2011, Atchison Police Department Sergeant David Enzbrenner responded to stand by at a residential...
Samuel A. Smith
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Franklin CountyCounty: FranklinDeath Date: 7/23/2010Added to Memorial: 2011Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentFranklin County Sheriff’s Deputy Samuel A. Smith was killed en route to a domestic disturbance call near...
Luke D. Nihart
Type of Officer: Park RangerJurisdiction: Kansas Department of Wildlife and ParksCounty: RileyDeath Date: 6/26/2010Added to Memorial: 2011Circumstances of Death: Vehicle accidentKansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Ranger Luke D. Nihart was killed when his...
Brian Etheridge
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 9/28/2009Added to Memorial: 2010Circumstances of death: GunshotOn Monday, September 28, 2009, Sedgwick County Deputy Sheriff Brian Etheridge was dispatched to a residence in...
Robert Timothy Buckman
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: MacksvilleCounty: StaffordDeath Date: 5/8/2007Added to Memorial: 2008Circumstances of Death: Officer Buckman died as a result of his courageous effort to warn residents of approaching tornadoes on May 4, 2007. His patrol...
James L. Johnson
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Sheridan CountyCounty: SheridanDeath Date: 10/26/2006Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn October 26, 2006, Sheridan County Sheriff James L. “Jimmy” Johnson called a local citizen into his office to discuss...
Cory A. Ricks
Type of Officer: Detention OfficerJurisdiction: Seward CountyCounty: SewardDeath Date: 1/13/2006Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of death: Automobile AccidentDetention Officer Cory A. Ricks was transporting a young prisoner from the Finney County Detention Center...
Kurt A. Ford
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Harvey CountyCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 4/9/2005Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Kurt A. Ford was fatally wounded on April 9, 2005, when he entered the Newton home of suspect Gregory Moore. Moore...
Matthew Samuels
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Greenwood CountyCounty: GreenwoodDeath Date: 1/19/2005Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff Matthew Samuels was serving a search and arrest warrant at a home in a remote part of Greenwood County. Scott...
Bret D. Tepe
Type of Officer: InvestigatorJurisdiction: Ford CountyCounty: Ford CountyDeath Date: 9/23/2003Added to Memorial: 2004Circumstances of death: Automobile AccidentOn the morning of September 23, 2003, Ford County Sheriff’s Office investigator Bret D. Tepe was driving to...
Wilson C. A. Johnson, Jr.
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Junction CityCounty: GearyDeath Date: 12/3/2001Added to Memorial: 2002Circumstances of Death: GunshotAt 4:30 a.m. on December 3, 2001, Officer Wilson C. A. Johnson, Jr. received a fatal gunshot wound while assisting a...
John E. Galvin
Type of Officer: Police LieutenantJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 11/4/2000Added to Memorial: 2001Circumstances of Death: Accident Bomb squad trainingOn November 5, 2000, Lieutenant John E. “Jack” Galvin died of injuries he sustained on October 20,...
Charles Joseph Bohlender Jr.
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 6/13/2000Added to Memorial: 2001Circumstances of Death: Helicopter AccidentOn the night of June 13, 2000, Officer Charles Joseph “Joey” Bohlender, Jr., a member of the Topeka Police...
Jeff William Howey
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 6/13/2000Added to Memorial: 2001Circumstances of Death: Helicopter AccidentOn the night of June 13, 2000, Officer Jeff William Howey, a Topeka Police Department helicopter pilot, was killed...
Todd Michael Widman
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Brown CountyCounty: BrownDeath Date: 3/1/2000Added to Memorial: 2000Circumstances of Death: GunshotDuring the early evening of March 1, 2000, Brown County Deputy Sheriff Todd Widman responded to a report of a transient...
James R. Kenney
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Clay CountyCounty: ClayDeath Date: 11/16/1999Added to Memorial: 2000Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the afternoon of November 16, 1999, Clay County Deputy Sheriff James R. “Monk” Kenney approached the Morganville...
Gregory A Stubbs
Type of Officer: Sheriff’s DeputyJurisdiction: Shawnee CountyCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 6/29/1998Added to Memorial: 2000Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackShawnee County Sheriff’s Deputy Greg Stubbs died of a heart attack while on duty shortly after eight o’clock the...
Richard J. Asten
Type of Officer: Police SergeantJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 6/11/1998Added to Memorial: 1999Circumstances of Death: Vehicular AssaultOn Thursday evening, June 11, 1998, Officer Asten was killed when he was struck by a stolen vehicle being...
Kenneth E Snider
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 4/18/1997Added to Memorial: 1998Circumstances of Death: StabbingShortly after midnight, Sergeant Snider and three other officers of the Sedgwick County sheriff’s office responded...
Kevin S. Easter
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 1/8/1996Added to Memorial: 1996Circumstances of Death: GunshotIn the early morning hours of January 8, 1996, Deputy Easter of the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department, began a...
Tony Patterson
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 10/12/1995Added to Memorial: 1996Circumstances of Death: GunshotShortly before 3:00 A.M. on the morning of October 12, 1995, officers from the Topeka Police Department approached the front...
Dean A. Goodheart
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: ColbyCounty: ThomasDeath Date: 9/6/1995Added to Memorial: 1996Circumstances of Death: Struck by AutomobileOn September 6, 1995, at about 6:30 a.m. Master Trooper Goodheart was performing a roadside inspection of a...
Daniel D. Trail
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: BeloitCounty: MitchellDeath Date: 6/25/1995Added to Memorial: 1996Circumstances of Death: DrowningSeveral Beloit residents were riding the Solomon River in inner tubes. As they approached the river spillway in Beloit, two...
John Teter
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: OxfordCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 4/9/1995Added to Memorial: 1995Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentOxford Police Chief John Teter was critically injured April 2nd when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving...
Irvin Powell
Type of Officer: Jailer/DispatcherJurisdiction: Haskell CountyCounty: HaskellDeath Date: 3/19/1995Added to Memorial: 1995Circumstances of Death: GunshotPowell, a jailer, and dispatcher, was shot twice during a jailbreak on March 17th at the Haskell County Jail. The...
Larry Lee Huff
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: Clay CenterCounty: ClayDeath Date: 11/26/1993Added to Memorial: 1994Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentOn November 3, 1993, at about 9:15 p.m., Master Trooper Huff was patrolling southbound on U.S. Highway 81...
Gene Leroy Goldsberry
Type of Officer: Deputy U.S. MarshalJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 8/5/1993Added to Memorial: 1994Circumstances of Death: GunshotGene L. Goldsberry was fatally shot as he manned his post on the fourth floor of the Frank Carlson Federal Building in...
Mark Avery
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 5/23/1993Added to Memorial: 1994Circumstances of Death: BeatingCorrections Officers Mark Avery and Michael Bidatsch were on routine duty supervising the Lansing Correctional...
Donald B. Gamblin, Jr.
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ShawneeCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 7/13/1991Added to Memorial: 1992Circumstances of Death: Accidental AutomobilePatrolman Gamblin stopped a car for speeding on the morning of July 13th. As he returned to his motorcycle after...
Christopher C. Willems
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 5/12/1991Added to Memorial: 1992Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Willems was returning to police headquarters at the end of his shift at 11:00 P.M. when he stopped a van to...
Jeffrey A. Young
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/1/1989Added to Memorial: 1990Circumstances of Death: Accident AutomobileJeffrey A. Young joined the Kansas City Police Force as a cadet in 1977 and was sworn in as a patrolman in...
Terry W. McNett
Type of Officer: DetectiveJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 2/2/1988Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn February 2, 1988, Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office narcotics detectives met with resistance while executing a search...
Donald Pittenger
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Pottawatomie CountyCounty: PottawatomieDeath Date: 4/27/1986Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: StrokeOn April 24, 1986, Deputy Pittenger was dispatched to a residence northeast of St. George to investigate a...
Maureen Gentry Murphy
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Bonner SpringsCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 1/31/1986Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotThe second woman police officer killed in the line of duty in Kansas was Officer Murphy. At work in her patrol car...
Deanna Hummel Rose
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Overland ParkCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 1/26/1985Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentOn January 24, 1985, Officer Hummel-Rose had stopped a vehicle and was attempting to arrest the driver on...
James L. Reynolds
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/4/1984Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentDeputy Sheriff Reynolds, a member of the motorcycle division, was assisting in the pursuit of a fleeing traffic...
Douglas E. Bunch
Type of Officer: Police Officer Jurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 3/29/1983Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackWhile assisting with a burglary call, Bunch took part in a foot pursuit. Following the incident, Bunch, who was 38...
Donald R. Harbour
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: OgdenCounty: RileyDeath Date: 8/9/1982Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Harbour, assigned to patrol duty in Ogden, responded to a routine call about suspicious activity at a pawnshop. Reportedly...
Alvin T. Wolf Jr.
Type of Officer: Sheriff’s Patrol SergeantJurisdiction: Butler CountyCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 4/19/1982Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Rammed by Semi TruckA semi-truck driver, involved in several hit and run accidents, was being pursued through...
Danny Laffey
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 1/5/1982Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentOfficer Laffey was investigating a disturbance call at the Zanzibar club. He had stopped a suspect vehicle in the street and...
Robert D. Hurd
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 10/11/1981Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: StabbingCorrections Officer Hurd was stabbed to death by an inmate at the state penitentiary. The inmate was angered by a...
Ferdinand F. Pribbenow
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: El DoradoCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 7/11/1981Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotTrooper Pribbenow was shot and fatally wounded during a routine traffic stop on the Kansas Turnpike north of El...
Paul Garofalo
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 11/8/1980Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Garofalo was on patrol when he stopped to question two women on the street. As he stopped his car, a man emerged and...
John T. Morgan
Type of Officer: Reserve Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Marion CountyCounty: MarionDeath Date: 5/22/1979Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotReserve Deputy Sheriff Morgan answered a family disturbance call in the town of Goessel. His son was with him at...
Stephen L. Hopper
Type of Officer: Sheriff SergeantJurisdiction: Butler CountyCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 5/19/1979Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentSergeant Hopper, a former Andover Chief of Police, was responding to a civil disturbance call. En route, he...
Donald R. Martin
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 8/19/1978Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: BeatingOn August 14, 1978, Corrections Officer Martin had been assigned to the state penitentiary hospital unit. He was...
Michael Haen
Type of Officer: Police ReserveJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 7/28/1978Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotReserve Officer Haen was sent to assist with traffic control at an accident site. During the investigation, a police...
Conroy G. O’Brien
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: Matfield GreenCounty: ChaseDeath Date: 5/24/1978Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotTrooper O’Brien of the Highway Patrol had stopped a car, occupied by three people, for speeding near Matfield...
David L VanMeter
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: MinneapolisCounty: OttawaDeath Date: 8/11/1977Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer VanMeter was probably on his way to check the city-county airport when his car careened off the highway in a heavy...
Archie K. Jacobs
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Morton CountyCounty: MortonDeath Date: 11/26/1976Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentOn patrol in a zero visibility blizzard, Jacobs’ car and another vehicle collided at a rural intersection....
Paul J. Weber
Type of Officer: Parole OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 10/19/1976Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: StabbingParole Officer Weber went to the home of a parolee at the mother’s request to have her son move out. As Weber followed...
Code H. Hall
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: HugotonCounty: StevensDeath Date: 8/25/1976Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackChief Hall was called to assist in a high-speed pursuit of several subjects on motorcycles. He suffered a fatal heart...
Carl A. Simons
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: LeotiCounty: WichitaDeath Date: 5/25/1976Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotNorth of Leoti, Chief Carl Simons stopped a car driven by Richard McCowan, who was in violation of parole. A general requestor...
James Buffum
Type of Officer: Reserve Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 9/13/1975Added to Memorial: 2016Circumstances of Death: GunshotReserve Police Officer James Buffum died September 13, 1975, after he and a fellow reserve officer strugled with a...
Jerry R. Ivey
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: SalinaCounty: SalineDeath Date: 6/13/1975Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Ivey stopped a vehicle answering the description of a car used moments earlier in a robbery at Dillon’s grocery store....
Jimmie Allen Barnett
Type of Officer: Special AgentJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 4/30/1975Added to Memorial: 2009Circumstances of Death: GunshotSanta Fe Railroad Special Agent Jimmie Allen Barnett was patrolling for trespassers on the elevated overpass tracks...
Marcus W. Hood
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 11/1/1974Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Air AccidentOfficer Hodd was killed while on patrol in his police helicopter. The drive shaft broke, causing the helicopter to crash....
Roy V. Johnson
Type of Officer: Sheriff DetectiveJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 10/31/1974Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotIn an attempt to escape, a county prisoner seized a police officer’s gun. During the ensuing scuffle, the officer...
John W. Johnson
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: US PenitentiaryCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 11/14/1922Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotCorrections Officer John W. Johnson was fatally stabbed by an inmate while working on the third tier of “B”...
Elmer L. Nonnast
Type of Officer: Game WardenJurisdiction: NewtonCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 5/8/1974Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWarden Nonnast and another game warden were patrolling the Arkansas River investigating reported illegal snagging and hand fishing....
James D. Thornton
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 10/2/1973Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotTrooper Thornton stopped to investigate a hitchhiker on I-70 east of Topeka, unaware that the man was wanted in New York...
Wayne L. Selle
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty:LeavenworthDeath Date: 7/31/1973Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotCorrections Officer Wayne L. Selle was stabbed to death during an inmate disturbance that started in “A”...
Larry G Beery
Type of Officer: Police CaptainJurisdiction: KingmanCounty: KingmanDeath Date: 4/15/1973Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile making a routine building check at a drug clinic, Captain Beery, in plain clothes, was ambushed by an unknown...
Kenneth M. Kennedy
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: HutchinsonCounty: RenoDeath Date: 9/15/1972Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Kennedy was making an undercover purchase of alcoholic beverages at a location suspected to be bootlegging and...
Gerald A. Foote
Type of Officer: Sheriff DetectiveJurisdiction: Johnson CountyCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 4/3/1971Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentWith Olathe police officer Herbert Hogue, Detective Foote was on a routine investigation in his unmarked...
Roger Lutcher
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 12/28/1969Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Lutcher and his partner, Howard Berry, were on patrol when they observed another officer, Robert Mackey,...
George R Nettleingham
Type of Officer: Chief of Police, Fire ChiefJurisdiction: HoisingtonCounty: BartonDeath Date: 11/29/1968Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackWhen a Hoisington cafe caught fire on Thanksgiving night, Chief of Police Nettleingham, who was also the...
Eldon K. Miller
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: Overland ParkCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 1/19/1968Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSergeant Miller, of the Kansas Highway Patrol, responded to a bank robbery call in Overland Park at the Metcalf...
Bernard C. Hill
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: El DoradoCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 5/28/1967Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentTrooper Hill was killed west of El Dorado in a head-on collision with a car that was proceeding in the...
John B McMurray
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: ManhattanCounty: RileyDeath Date: 12/6/1964Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentHighway Patrol Trooper McMurray had completed a radar setup and was loading the equipment into the trunk of...
Robert H Vest
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Cowley CountyCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 1/17/1964Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentWhile on patrol near Arkansas City, Deputy Vest was killed in a one-car accident. Panel: 13
Harry Hedrick
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/29/1954Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotBedell and his partner, Louis LeManske, were on patrol when they were flagged down by a robbery victim who pointed...
Robert C. Cowdin
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: OttawaCounty: FranklinDeath Date: 7/7/1963Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackOfficer Cowdin of the Ottawa Police Department was on loan to the Garnett department, as were other officers from...
David A. Kenyon
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 10/26/1962Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Kenyon was attempting to settle a domestic disturbance. He escorted a woman from the scene when her husband obtained...
Forrest E. Richards
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Butler CountyCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 9/23/1962Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackUndersheriff Richards had returned to duty directing the Augusta office of the sheriff’s department after recuperating...
Alfred Claycamp
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Trego CountyCounty: TregoDeath Date: 7/14/1962Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhen Sheriff Chet McAtee of Trego County was informed by a farmer of a suspicious pair of hitchhikers, he asked Claycamp,...
Oliver P. Jones
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: EnterpriseCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 3/29/1962Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: Accident AutomobileMarshal Jones, as was his usual daily practice, parked his patrol car on First Street to monitor the heavy...
Elmer M. Parmer
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Leavenworth CountyCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 8/28/1960Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentA speeding vehicle that Deputy Sheriff Parmer was chasing collided with a motorcycle and struck a power pole....
Pleasant E. Teel
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: HeringtonCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 1/17/1960Added to Memorial: 1992Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackEverett Teel, 53-year-old Herington police officer died of a heart attack Sunday, January 17, 1960, after pursuing a...
Jimmie Jacobs
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: El DoradoCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 10/6/1959Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentTrooper Jacobs was on an emergency blood plasma run when he was killed in an auto accident on a county...
Richard Coldren
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 3/19/1957Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Coldren and Officer Charles Pierce, in separate cars, responded to bring in a suspect on a trespassing charge....
Thomas W. Mendina
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 3/4/1956Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentDeputy Mendina, on patrol, was called to assist another officer, William Scherzer, who was investigating...
Wesley G Walden
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 11/19/1955Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentWalden, only nineteen days on the force, was riding with another officer at approximately 4 a.m. when...
Clarence L. Shields
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 4/11/1955Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer “Boots” Shields, who was either responding to a tip or was continuing an investigation into a burglary ring, made a...
William H. Everett
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Rice CountyCounty: RiceDeath Date: 11/24/1954Added to Memorial: 2000Circumstances of Death: Accidental AutomobileOn the evening of November 24, 1954, Rice County Deputy Sheriff William H. Everett was dispatched to an...
Maurice Bedell
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/29/1954Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotBedell and his partner, Louis LeManske, were on patrol when they were flagged down by a robbery victim who pointed...
Henry N. Kenaga
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 6/20/1954Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotCorrections Office Kenaga responded to a situation in which inmates at the state penitentiary, armed with guns and...
Fred Bell
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Saline CountyCounty: SalineDeath Date: 9/17/1952Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Beating; causing Heart AttackDuring a court hearing for a murder case, the defendant became unruly and combative. As the sheriff...
Willard N. Carver
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Johnson CountyCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 6/23/1952Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotEarly on the morning of June 23, Sergeant Carver and Patrolman Floyd Gaunt were investigating an attempted auto theft....
Cleo Chrest
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ManhattanCounty: RileyDeath Date: 1/27/1951Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentOfficer Chrest was riding in a patrol car with another officer driving. While evidently in response to a call...
Jacob W. Boelens
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/29/1954Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff Boelens and Undersheriff Dale McBride were returning to Oswego after answering a routine call to Edna when...
Alfred F. Jacka
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Barton CountyCounty: BartonDeath Date: 11/28/1950Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentUndersheriff Jacka, who had recently been elected sheriff, was searching for two farmers reported overdue at their homes....
Earl J. Kerns
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Stevens CountyCounty: StevensDeath Date: 12/13/1949Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackIn the process of arresting a subject for public drunkenness, Sheriff Kerns suffered a blow to the chest. He died later...
Dave Break
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: FlorenceCounty: MarionDeath Date: 10/9/1949Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Routine TrafficMarshal Break followed a known drunk, Fred Stanley, home as the suspect appeared to be driving while intoxicated. The...
Milton L. Davis
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Dickinson CountyCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 4/24/1949Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotUndersheriff Milton Davis and his brother, Sheriff Elmer Davis, answered a disturbance call at the farm of Charles...
Elmer F. Davis
Elmer F. Davis Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Dickinson CountyCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 4/24/1949Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff Elmer Davis and his brother, Undersheriff Milton Davis, answered a disturbance call at the farm of...
Fred Schaumeyer
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 2/12/1948Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentOn February 12, 1948, Officer Shaumeyer was investigating a report of a car parked on the Frisco railroad tracks....
Ed Payne
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: GarnettCounty: AndersonDeath Date: 7/22/1947Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotGarnett Chief of Police Payne stopped a speeder in Garnett. The suspect, Edward Smerchek, while seated in his car, shot and...
Michael F. Churchill
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: OsawatomieCounty: MiamiDeath Date: 2/3/1947Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotChief Churchill, with city engineer Harvey Earp, went to the home of George Miller to serve a warrant charging Miller with...
Maurice R. Plummer
Type of Officer: Kansas Highway PatrolJurisdiction: HaysCounty: EllisDeath Date: 12/16/1944Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentTrooper Plummer, the first Kansas Highway Patrol officer to die in the line of duty, was fatally injured in an...
Robert L. Freeman
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Leavenworth CountyCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 8/26/1944Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn January 22, 1944, Arthur Lathrop, just paroled from the state penitentiary in Lansing, stole a car in...
Edward Nugent
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/2/1943Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Nugent was on his way home when a young woman stopped him to report that a man had tried to force her into an...
Olney E. Eaton
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: SalinaCounty: SalineDeath Date: 5/31/1942Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Struck by AutomobileOn May 24, 1942, while on night duty, Officer Eaton was crossing a street after conferring with fellow officers....
Clarence A. Sanger
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: MoranCounty: AllenDeath Date: 3/28/1942Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile on his rounds, Marshal Sanger discovered two men attempting to break into a garage. Sanger, with pistol drawn, challenged them...
E. Ray Kumpf
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Hamilton CountyCounty: HamiltonDeath Date: 7/3/39Added to Memorial: 2000Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the morning of July 3, 1939, Hamilton County Undersheriff E. R. “Ray” Kumpf received a telephone call from Holly,...
John T. Moyer
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: Baxter SpringsCounty: CherokeeDeath Date: 5/24/1939Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotChief of Police Moyer was shot and killed while attempting to apprehend one Charles Kinzie, an escapee from an insane...
William E. Smith
Type of Officer: Special AgentJurisdiction: U.S. Treasury DepartmentCounty: CrawfordDeath Date: 12/25/1937Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotUnited States Treasury Department Special Agent William E. Smith suffered a head injury in a vehicle crash...
Charles Casey
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Montgomery CountyCounty: MontgomeryDeath Date: 8/28/1937Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotUndersheriff Casey was killed while attempting to arrest murder suspect Frank Foster near Elk City. Panel: 24
Wimberly W. Baker
Type of Officer: Federal Bureau of InvestigationJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 4/17/1937Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotBaker, a Kansas City bureau FBI agent assigned to eastern Kansas, was taking out a post office box belonging...
Martin H. Grant
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: McPhersonCounty: McPhersonDeath Date: 2/12/1937Added to Memorial: 2000Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackOfficer Martin H. Grant responded to a report of a disturbance at a cafe on North Main Street in McPherson late on...
Ben Wiggins
Type of Officer: Night MarshalJurisdiction: LyonsCounty: RiceDeath Date: 3/30/1936Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Wiggins was found dead on the morning of March 30 at the rear of the Williamson Brooks furniture store. It was apparent that...
W. K. Morgan
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sumner CountyCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 9/22/1935Added to Memorial: 1999Circumstances of Death: GunshotIn the early morning hours of Sunday, September 22, 1935, Officer Morgan was making his rounds as night watchman in Belle...
Robert J. Hammers
Type of Officer: Town MarshalJurisdiction: ClearwaterCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 3/14/1934Added to Memorial: 1989Circumstances of Death: GunshotAlthough there were no witnesses to the shooting it is supposed that acting Town Marshall Robert J. Hammers discovered a...
Asa N Clark
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: CorningCounty: NemahaDeath Date: 3/14/1934Added to Memorial: 1990Circumstances of Death: GunshotAsa N. Clark, Corning City Marshall was shot to death January 9, 1934 as he surprised several burglars on the city main street....
Benjamin J. Davidson
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Shawnee CountyCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 11/28/1933Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDavidson, the county jailor, and a deputy sheriff, was on night duty when four men led by Cecil Thornbrugh, escaped...
Ottis L. Durkee
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ChetopaCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 5/31/1933Added to Memorial: 2004Circumstances of Death: GunshotIn the early morning of May 31, 1933, Officer Ottis (Otto) LaDuke Durkee, a forty-two year old Chetopa night police officer,...
Charles M. Bruce
Type of Officer: Night Police ChiefJurisdiction: McPhersonCounty: McPhersonDeath Date: 5/14/1933Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotInvestigating the possible burglary of a service station, Officer Bruce found a broken lock but no one was present....
Albert H. Erdman
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: LongtonCounty: Elk CountyDeath Date: 2/28/1933Added to Memorial: 2003Circumstances of Death: GunshotLongton City Marshal Albert H. Erdman was shot and killed by an unknown assailant shortly after midnight on February 28,...
Bailey Bell
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 2/4/1933Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile on patrol with Officer Kenneth Hunt, Bell observed an occupied car that had been reported stolen. The officers...
Jube Simpson
Type of Officer: Night MarshalJurisdiction: LenoraCounty: NortonDeath Date: 11/21/1932Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotAlthough there were no witnesses to the killing it is believed that Night Marshal Simpson was overpowered at the Home Oil...
Ernest R. E. Gough
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 7/29/1932Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn July 28, 1932, Officer Gough and his partner, Joe Fiedler, were on night patrol and stopped to routinely...
Harry L. Bolin
Type of Officer: Assistant Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: NewtonCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 6/15/1932Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentChief Bolin was following a car suspected of transporting illegal alcohol. To avoid alerting the...
Charles H. Newman
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: HugotonCounty: StevensDeath Date: 10/15/1931Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotMarshal Newman arrested one H. L. McBee for public drunkenness as he was on a general rampage around town. On the way to the...
Merle R Colver
Type of Officer: Police DetectiveJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 8/14/1931Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDetective Colver was questioning two men who were suspects in several gas station robberies, in their hotel room. While...
Frank Rohrbach
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/6/1931Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Rohrbach received a citizen call at home to investigate two men who were observed with guns in their car. The...
Melvin C. Howe
Type of Officer: Police Officer Jurisdiction: Lawrence County: Douglas Death Date: 4/24/1931 Added to Memorial: 1987 Circumstances of Death: Gunshot Officer Howe had stopped a driver who was swerving his car on the road. Howe did not know that the driver, Oney Knight,...
Arch D. Brandon
Type of Officer: Railroad Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 4/19/1931Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: GunshotA Rock Island special agent was shot and killed by George Varela April 19, 1931, after he had removed him from a train...
Melvin C. Hamilton
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Labette CountyCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 10/15/1930Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile transporting two prisoners who had been convicted of robbing the Edna bank, from Oswego to the state penitentiary,...
James O. Pugh
Type of Officer: Police LieutenantJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 8/16/1930Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentLieutenant Pugh was on motorcycle patrol and was killed in a traffic accident. Panel: 26
Paul E. Gillmore
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 7/18/1930Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentPatrolman Gilmore was killed in a traffic accident while on motorcycle patrol. Panel: 25
G. Milton Rickman
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Coffey CountyCounty: CoffeyDeath Date: 5/6/1930Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotAn armed and suspicious-acting man was observed boarding a train without a ticket. Undersheriff Rickman ordered him off the...
Evan Yoakum
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: Fall RiverCounty: GreenwoodDeath Date: 4/5/1930Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotCity Marshal Yoakum ordered Henry Giles, who was drinking and creating a disturbance, to leave town. Giles later returned...
John Crawford
Type of Officer: Deputy ConstableJurisdiction: ColumbusCounty: CherokeeDeath Date: 12/31/1929Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn December 29, 1929, Crawford, deputy constable of Spring Valley Township, was fatally shot at an abandoned coal mine...
William Hicks
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 12/8/1929Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Hicks and his partner were on a motorcycle patrol when a citizen informed them of a burglary in progress....
Adolph J. Eichenberger
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: FlorenceCounty: MarionDeath Date: 9/17/1929Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile on patrol about 4:30 a.m., Chief Eichenberger came upon two men attempting to pry open a store door. Several shots were...
William H. Rich
Type of Officer: Police OfficeJurisdiction: PrattCounty: PrattDeath Date: 6/21/1929Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentAround 1:00 a.m., as Officer Rich was painting a “No U-Turn” sign on a street, he was struck by a car and killed. In the darkness,...
LeRoy Davis
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Dodge CityCounty: FordDeath Date: 5/18/1929Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer LeRoy Davis was shot at close range and killed when he attempted to arrest one Roy Redding for attempting to start...
Albert J. DuFriend
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: NewtonCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 11/22/1928Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Internal HemorrhageChief DuFriend and Officer Paul Dutton were responding to a store robbery. While en route, DuFriend suffered a...
Lee White
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: HutchinsonCounty: RenoDeath Date: 7/26/1928Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: Automobile AccidentLee White a guard with the Hutchinson State Reformatory was in charge of a work detail on July 25, 1928, at...
Earl Scothorn
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: JohnsonDeath Date: 811/13/1927Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotSeveral weeks prior to his death on November 13, 1927, Santa Fe Railway Special Officer Earl Scothorn was on duty...
J. E. Cox
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: Dodge CityCounty: FordDeath Date: 11/8/1927Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotChief Cox was shot six times by a man he believed to be a chicken thief. This man, later identified by the FBI as...
Govan C Mills
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Hamilton CountyCounty: HamiltonDeath Date: 9/13/1927Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn September 10, 1927, Sheriff Mills, with his wife along, observed a car parked in a suspicious manner along the roadside....
John Sherman
Type of Officer: Railroad Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 8/31/1927Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: GunshotUnion Pacific Special Agent John Sherman was shot in the back August 17, 1927 by a youth after he had taken two youths...
Frank Hill
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sedgwick CountyCounty: Sedgwick CountyDeath Date: 8/16/1927Added to Memorial: 2003Circumstances of death: GunshotOn August 16, 1927, Deputy Frank Hill was killed during an attempted escape from the Sedgwick County jail....
Joseph G. Marshall
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 8/9/1927Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Marshall was in the sidecar of a motorcycle being driven by Officer Frank Busy when they recognized an automobile that...
Vernon E. Ogden
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: Sedgwick CountyDeath Date: 7/5/1927Added to Memorial: 2003Circumstances of death: Traffic AccidentOfficer Ogden was pursuing a speeder on his motorcycle on Cleveland Ave. when he crashed into the side of a...
William Conley
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 9/12/1926Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Conley and his partner, E. J. Wilson, observed a car parked under a viaduct. As they approached to investigate,...
Baldwin H. Casebolt
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: ChautauquaCounty: ChautauquaDeath Date: 9/10/1925Added to Memorial: 2002Circumstances of Death: GunshotEarly on the morning of September 10, 1926, Chautauqua County Deputy Sheriff and Cedar Vale City Marshal Baldwin H....
Edward Lee Bowler
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: FranklinDeath Date: 1/16/1926Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotSanta Fe Special Officer E. Lee Bowler and Special Officer H. N. Latimer had been inspecting a standing freight...
Roy Stewart
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 1/9/1926Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn August 9, 1921, while riding a locomotive through Newton's Sand Creek yards, Santa Fe Railway Special Officer Roy...
E. Clay Thompson
Type of Officer: PatrolmanJurisdiction: Leavenworth CountyCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 10/28/1925Added to Memorial: 2018Circumstances of Death: GunshotLeavenworth Police Department Patrolman E. Clay Thompson was struck by a passing motorist on October 28, 1925 as he...
Samuel C. Pratt
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Thomas CountyCounty: ThomasDeath Date: 8/24/1925Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotTwo robbers on a two-state crime spree had killed a police officer in North Platte, Nebraska and were headed for the Kansas...
Edward F. Hall
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 4/10/1925Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Hall and a detective were attempting to stop a car. As they pulled alongside, gunfire came from within the vehicle...
Harrison R. Brown
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 1/4/1925Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile walking a beat, Officer Brown stopped to question a man named Duke Kelley. Kelley fatally shot Brown, then confessed to...
Rudy Markl
Type of Officer: Police DetectiveJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 12/25/1924Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile investigating a robbery on December 20, 1924, Detective Markl and his partner observed the suspects’ vehicle...
Reason S. Monroe
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: HutchinsonCounty: RenoDeath Date: 7/2/1924Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn July 1, 1924, following reports of a family disturbance, Officer Monroe arrived at the Maynor Cheek home to find that Cheek...
Steve A. Jenkins
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: AugustaCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 4/25/1924Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile on patrol on August 18, 1924, Officer Jenkins noticed a man hiding inside the Augusta Standard Oil service station....
David W. Burns
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 12/15/1923Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: GunshotD. W. Burns, records clerk and parole officer at the Kansas State Penitentiary, died December 15, 1923, in St....
Robert C Scudder
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 11/27/1923Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn November 24th, 1923, Office Scudder was responding to a disturbance call at a dance hall. Proceeding up the stairs, hemet...
Vernon L. Holzer
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 8/21/1923Added to Memorial: 2009Circumstances of Death: GunshotSanta Fe Railroad Special Officer Vernon L. Holzer was shot the night of July 25, 1923 as he was riding and...
James Lee David
Type of Officer: Railroad Special AgentJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 5/17/1923Added to Memorial: 2022Circumstances of Death: Gunshot James Lee David, age 41, a Special Agent with the Missouri Pacific Railroad was assigned to patrol the...
Jacob N. Elliott
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: EurekaCounty: GreenwoodDeath Date: 11/16/1922Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Elliott was on night patrol and interrupted two burglars attempting to break into the variety store. Evidently the...
Andrew H. Leonard
Type of Officer: CaptainJurisdiction: US PenitentiaryCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 11/14/1922Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotCaptain Andrew H. Leonard was fatally stabbed while attempting to subdue a noncompliant inmate. The inmate, Joe...
William F. Bloomfield
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Bourbon CountyCounty: BourbonDeath Date: 9/16/1922Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Sheriff Bloomfield was attempting to arrest John Cochran, a well-known bootlegger, for selling illegal liquor. A...
Elmer E. Biggs
Type of Officer: Police SergeantJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 9/1/1922Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSergeant Biggs and Officer Fred Wheeler observed several persons unloading tires from a parked truck. When the officers...
Fred Wheeler
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 9/1/1922Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Wheeler and Sergeant Elmer Biggs observed several persons unloading tires from a parked truck. When the officers...
C. LeRoy Damron
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: Bonner SpringsCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 8/23/1922Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile on night rounds, Marshal Damron noticed two suspicious looking men on a street corner. It was later learned that...
Leonard M. Kennedy
Type of Officer: Special Officer Jurisdiction: BurlingtonCounty: CoffeyDeath Date: 7/19/1922Added to Memorial: 2018Circumstances of Death: GunshotSpecial Officer Leonard M. Kennedy died in the early morning on July 19, 1922 as he guarded the Otter Creek Bridge near...
William E. Waers
Type of Officer: Rock Island Railway PoliceJurisdiction: HeringtonCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 1/11/1922Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotRock Island Railway policeman Waers was brought to Herington to assist in an ongoing investigation concerning...
Isaac West
Type of Officer: Night MarshalJurisdiction: Gas CityCounty: AllenDeath Date: 12/15/1921Added to Memorial: 1995Circumstances of Death: GunshotMarshall West was shot and killed in Gas City as he approached a local homeowner in an attempt to serve an order given by the...
Charles Hoffman
Type of Officer: Police DetectiveJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 11/23/1921Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSuspected murderer and gangster Eddie Adams, whose gang had already killed officers A. L. Young and Robert Fitzpatrick,was...
Robert Fitzpatrick
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 11/20/1921Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Fitzpatrick and his partner, Rudy LaCroix, were informed that the notorious Eddie Adams gang was in the Wichita...
Andrew Miller
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: EllisCounty: EllisDeath Date: 11/15/1921Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotMarshal Miller was fatally shot while trying to stop a public disturbance created by a group of “toughs” led by a notorious...
A. L. Young
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 11/5/1921Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile walking a beat, Young was fired upon and killed from ambush by Eddie Adams. Adams was also responsible for the killings...
Andrew F. Hartwick
Type of Officer: Park Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 5/19/1921Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: GunshotAndrew Hartwick, Ripley park (Topeka) police officer, was shot May 19, 1921. He was shot as he attempted to remove three...
Frank Blizard
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Elk CountyCounty: ElkDeath Date: 12/30/1920Added to Memorial: 2003Circumstances of Death: GunshotShortly after noon on December 30, 1920, Elk County Sheriff Frank Blizard drove out of Howard, Kansas to serve papers on individuals...
Tom Carson
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: SalinaCounty: SalineDeath Date: 11/29/1920Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Carson, on night patrol, was shot and killed by a man he had ordered off the Union Pacific night train. A suspect was...
Nicholas P Damett
Type of Officer: Deputy Sheriff and ConstableJurisdiction: Sumner CountyCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 11/20/1920Added to Memorial: 2004Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the the evening of November 20, 1920, Sumner County Deputy Sheriff Nicholas "Nick" Damett, accompanied...
Richard Kreuger
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WinfieldCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 9/3/1920Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotThe Winfield Police Department received a call reporting that John Shoup had been following and annoying a woman. Officers...
Orla F. Hefner
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Kearny CountyCounty: KearnyDeath Date: 8/3/1920Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotAn itinerant worker at a ranch was attempting to sell a car with Texas license plates. When the attempted sale was reported to...
Will C. Reed
Type of Officer: Railroad Special AgentJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 7/4/1920Added to Memorial: 2002Circumstances of Death: GunshotAt 3:00 a.m. on July 4, 1920, Rock Island Railroad Special Agent Will C. Reed and his partner B. B. Collins received...
Charles F. Artz
Type of Officer: Railroad Special AgentJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 6/27/1920Added to Memorial: 2002Circumstances of Death: GunshotIn the early morning of June 27, 1920, Rock Island Railroad Special Agent Charles F. Artz arrested four men on...
R.G. Warnke
Type of Officer: ForemanJurisdiction: US Penitentiary, LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 6/20/1920Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotForeman R. G. Warnke was fatally beaten by inmate Carl Panzram in the prison laundry room. The inmate struck...
George Burnau
Type of Officer: Under SheriffJurisdiction: Jefferson CountyCounty: JeffersonDeath Date: 4/29/1920Added to Memorial: 2019Circumstances of Death: Heart FailureOn April 29, 1920, Undersheriff George Burnau along with Jefferson County Sheriff Rindom were near the...
Charles “C.A.” McKinney
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: IndependenceCounty: MontgomeryDeath Date: 3/21/1920Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: GunshotDuring the late, dark evening hours of March 21, 1920, Assistant Chief of Police Charles "C.A." McKinney, age 43, was...
Charles “C.A.” McKinney
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: IndependenceCounty: DoniphanDeath Date: 3/21/1920Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: GunshotDuring the late, dark evening hours of March 21, 1920, Assistant Chief of Police Charles “C.A.” McKinney, age 43, was...
Otho H. Munger
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Smith CountyCounty: SmithDeath Date: 09/27/1919Added to Memorial: 2018Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Sheriff Munger was shot and killed on September 27, 1919, while attempting to arrest two men suspected of robbing...
John M. Starnes
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 7/13/1919Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: BeatingFive men who were “joyriding” collided their car with another vehicle and then continued riding through the streets of...
Marion Ross
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ManhattanCounty: RileyDeath Date: 3/10/1918Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: BeatingRoss, on patrol in Aggieville, the campus town near Kansas State University in Manhattan, approached a drunk in the city park....
Edgar A. Barr
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: US PenitentiaryCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 3/19/1917Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotCorrections Officer Barr was stabbed to death in the prison yard by inmate Ono Manuel. The stabbing was in...
John Stonebraker
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: SalinaCounty: SalineDeath Date: 2/12/1917Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotResponding to a call involving a public disturbance, Officer Stonebraker and Chief of Police Howard Burke entered a rooming...
John H. Cox
Type of Officer: Game WardenJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 12/6/1916Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhile attempting to arrest Claude Biggers for hunting without a license, Game Warden Cox was shot and killed six miles southwest...
Walter Davis
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Lyon CountyCounty: LyonDeath Date: 8/16/1916Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotAfter two men reported to the police that they had been robbed, a policemen observed the two suspects and informed Sheriff Davis....
Martin Moore
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Morton CountyCounty: MortonDeath Date: 7/22/1916Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff Moore had been called to investigate a public disturbance call at a Rolla residence. After the sheriff arrived at the...
James M. Karr, Jr.
Type of Officer: Motorcycle PatrolmanJurisdiction: RosedaleCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 7/16/1916Added to Memorial: 2014Circumstances of Death: GunshotMotorcycle Patrolman James M. Karr, Jr. was shot and killed the morning of July 10, 1916. He was pursuing a car used...
George Shindle
Type of Officer: Special AgentJurisdiction: Union Pacific RailroadCounty: LoganDeath Date: 7/3/1916Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn June 21, 1916 Union Pacific Railroad Special Agent George Shindle was stabbed by a railroad worker in the Union...
Andrew F. Turner
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: U.S. Penitentiary, LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 3/26/1916Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances: StabbingCorrections Officer Andrew F. Turner was fatally stabbed by inmate Robert Stroud during the noon meal...
Virgil E. Healea
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: MarionCounty: MarionDeath Date: 3/10/1916Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotMarshal Healea noticed two suspicious acting men who had awakened a gas station owner to obtain gasoline for their car. Upon...
Charles Schram
Type of Officer: Night MarshalJurisdiction: El DoradoCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 7/13/1915Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: BeatingNight Marshal Schram climbed the stairs leading over Wiley’s Smoky House the morning of June 28, 1915, to investigate a noise....
Ray Cunningham
Type of Officer: Railroad PoliceJurisdiction: AugustaCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 5/28/1915Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotThree Frisco detectives, including Cunningham, entered a boxcar at Beaumont Junction to eject several transients from the...
Frank W. Griswold
Type of Officer: Police CaptainJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 5/23/1915Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotCaptain Griswold and Detective Al Harrell responded to a burglary reported at a shoe store. As Griswold entered the store he...
William L. Humpries
Type of Officer: Police DetectiveJurisdiction: WichitaCounty: SedgwickDeath Date: 2/23/1915Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotHumpries, the first Wichita officer to lose his life in the line of duty, was attempting to question a suspect that he had...
John McInroy
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: CaneyCounty: MontgomeryDeath Date: 11/12/1913Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn November 12, 1913, City Marshal McInroy was attempting to place into custody a thief, Nip Vann, when he was shot and killed...
George W. Greenstreet
Type of Officer: Park RangerJurisdiction: Kansas Department of Wildlife and ParksCounty: RileyDeath Date: 6/26/2010Added to Memorial: 2011Circumstances of Death: GunshotKansas Department of Wildlife and Parks Ranger Luke D. Nihart was killed when his all-terrain...
Caswell S. Matthews
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: TopekaCounty: ShawneeDeath Date: 5/6/1912Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Matthews, alerted that two men who had robbed the city marshal of Bonner Springs might be on the 6:00 a.m. train on May...
John P. Cates
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 6/1/1911Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotShortly after midnight on June 1, 1911, Santa Fe Railway Special Officer John Cates was checking security seals on...
Thomas S Fowler
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Reno CountyCounty: RenoDeath Date: 12/11/1910Added to Memorial: 1991Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the evening of December 11, 1910, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Simpson Fowler volunteered to assist the Hutchinson Police...
Charles Q. Lukens
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Wyandotte CountyCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 12/8/1909Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Sheriff Lukens and Rosedale Night Marshal Drew attempted to serve divorce papers on one Charles T. Galloway...
T. Wilson Pringle
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LawrenceCounty: DouglasDeath Date: 10/16/1909Added to Memorial: 1990Circumstances of Death: GunshotT. Wilson Pringle, Lawrence police officer, was shot Monday, October 11, 1909, by Earl Bullock and died at Simmon’s Hospital...
Martin McDonald
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 9/21/1908Added to Memorial: 1990Circumstances of Death: GunshotMartin McDonald was marshal of the North City Court of Kansas City, Kansas. He was shot through the heart on September 21,...
Will Garr
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: CaneyCounty: MontgomeryDeath Date: 4/14/1908Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Garr, who had arrested a known town drunk and rowdy, Mark Killion, several times, was “called out” by Killion. They...
E. L. McCracken
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Barber CountyCounty: BarberDeath Date: 3/21/1908Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn March 19, 1908, Sheriff McCracken and City Marshal Bunton of Kiowa were attempting to serve a warrant on one James Clark for...
A. O. Welfelt
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Cowley CountyCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 1/28/1907Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Accidental GunshotSheriff Welfelt had tracked murderer Louis Bloomfield to Ponca City, Oklahoma Territory. On November 22, 1906, as...
John J. Breene
Type of Officer: ConstableJurisdiction: Arkansas CityCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 11/27/1906Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn November 17, 1906, City Constable Breene surprised a burglar in his own house. The man, a known burglar that Breene...
Oscar G. Bodley
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: FranklinDeath Date: 8/29/1906Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotOscar G. Bodley, Santa Fe Railway Special Officer, was shot and killed by a freight car robber in the Santa Fe...
William H. Owens
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LansingCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 10/5/1905Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: BeatingOn October 4, 1905, Officer Owens had taken prisoner W. B. Cunningham to do survey work outside the penitentiary. In...
D.F. Calhoun
Type of Officer: Railroad DetectiveJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: ChautauquaDeath Date: 7/12/1905Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the morning of July 13, 1905, Detective D. F. Calhoun was fatally wounded by gunfire while attempting to...
Richard A. Calhoun
Type of Officer: ConstableJurisdiction: YaleCounty: CrawfordDeath Date: 12/11/1904Added to Memorial: 1992Circumstances of Death: GunshotSandy Calhoun was shot and killed at 2:00 P.M. December 11, 1904 while attempting to pull his revolver from his pocket to “quiet an...
W. G. Jones
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: CherryvaleCounty: MontogomeryDeath Date: 12/29/1903Added to Memorial: 2004Circumstances of Death: GunshotCherryvale City Marshal W. G. Jones was shot on the afternoon of December 28, 1903, while attempting to serve an arrest...
Milton Hinkle
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: PittsburgCounty: CrawfordDeath Date: 12/25/1902Added to Memorial: 2004Circumstances of Death: GunshotLate on Christmas Eve 1902, Officer Milton Hinkle attempted to arrest a Pittsburg, Kansas resident for disorderly conduct....
George Gallagher
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: HortonCounty: BrownDeath Date: 9/26/1902Added to Memorial: 1994Circumstances of Death: Heart AttackShortly after coming on duty Officers Gallagher and Phiffer were called to arrest an inebriated person. When they appeared...
William Morris
Type of Officer: Police SergeantJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 9/2/1902Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn his early morning patrol, Sergeant Morris routinely checked the Metropolitan Street Car barn. On September 2, he...
Robert Cooper
Type of Officer: Assistant City MarshalJurisdiction: Junction CityCounty: GearyDeath Date: 11/20/1901Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficers Cooper and James White were attempting to quell as disturbance created by Fourteenth Cavalry soldiers...
James R. White
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Junction CityCounty: GearyDeath Date: 11/18/1901Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficers White and Robert Cooper were attempting to quell a disturbance created by Fourteenth Cavalry soldiers from...
Joseph. B. Waldrupe
Type of Officer: Corrections OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 11/16/1901Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: GunshotThree hundred and thirty-eight prisoners were working at the new site for the federal prison just north of...
George C. Montgomery
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Santa Fe RailroadCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 10/5/1901Added to Memorial: 2007Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the night of October 5, 1901, Santa Fe Special Officer George C. Montgomery sat at a table in his Winfield home...
Allen Moore
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LawrenceCounty: DouglasDeath Date: 5/22/1901Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: Accidental GunshotLawrence Police Officer Allen Moore was in the Union Pacific Telegraph Office in the early morning of May 22nd. It...
Edward Metz
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Reno CountyCounty: RenoDeath Date: 1/7/1901Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Possible AccidentUndersheriff Metz was on his way to board the Missouri Pacific train for Wellington as he was to appear there at the...
James E. Roberts
Type of Officer: DeputyJurisdiction: DunlapCounty: MorrisDeath Date: 5/12/1900Added to Memorial: 2003Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the evening of May 12, 1900, James Edward Roberts and and another deputized Dunlap, Kansas citizen stationed themselves on the...
Robert. A. Dickerson
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: AtchisonCounty: AtchisonDeath Date: 10/23/1899Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOfficer Dickerson, of the Atchison Police Department, was sent to assist officers in the town of Doniphan, in Doniphan...
A. A. Wilson
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: SedanCounty: ChautauquaDeath Date: 8/31/1899Added to Memorial: 2009Circumstances of Death: GunshotSedan, Kansas City Marshall A.A. Wilson was shot and killed on August 31, 1899, while attempting to serve an arrest warrant for...
John Van Horn
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ParsonsCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 7/27/1899Added to Memorial: 1994Circumstances of Death: GunshotPoliceman Van Horn heard two shots fired near the Gulf depot in Parsons on the night of July 27th and went to investigate. Van...
Edward Coleman
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Washington CountyCounty: WashingtonDeath Date: 5/15/1899Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff Coleman was attempting to serve a warrant on William Hoxie and Robert Algeo, suspects in several burglaries and...
William Kime
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: CoffeyvilleCounty: MontgomeryDeath Date: 4/22/1898Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn April 20, 1898, James Wood and Lou Burdick had attacked a citizen with stones and revolvers. When they returned to...
Charles Batterson
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: MarysvilleCounty: MarshallDeath Date: 4/6/1898Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn the night of April 6, City Marshal Batterson was assisting the county sheriff as the county jailor, as he often did. While...
Seldon B. Lard
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Riley CountyCounty: RileyDeath Date: 10/20/1897Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff Lard, accompanied by a deputy and the county attorney, was attempting to serve a warrant for disturbing the peace and...
James H. Helms
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: OsawatomieCounty: MiamiDeath Date: 1/20/1895Added to Memorial: 1991Circumstances of Death: GunshotJames H. Helms heard an explosion about 3:10 A.M. in downtown Osawatomie Sunday, January 20, 1895. Borrowing a lantern from a...
Hugh H. Siverd
Type of Officer: ConstableJurisdiction: WinfieldCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 10/25/1893Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotConstable Siverd arrested bootlegger Wilbur Norton on a warrant and was taking him to jail when they were confronted by Morgan...
Charles T. Connelly
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: CoffeyvilleCounty: MontgomeryDeath Date: 10/5/1892Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotHearing the firing in the streets of Coffeyville as citizens took arms against an attempted bank robbery by the infamous...
John F. Fulton
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: WinfieldCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 9/2/1892Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotA citizen reported to Office Fulton that a George Killion was whipping his wife and disturbing the peace. When Fulton arrived...
A. W. Balfour
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Kiowa CountyCounty: KiowaDeath Date: 7/4/1892Added to Memorial: 1998Circumstances of Death: GunshotIn early July, 1892, Officer Balfour learned that a man wanted for larceny would be present at a Fourth of July picnic held at...
Samuel B. McLemore
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Fort ScottCounty: BourbonDeath Date: 1/23/1892Added to Memorial: 2014Circumstances of Death: GunshotPolice Officer Samuel B. McLemore was shot and killed the morning of January 23, 1892, as he attempted to arrest two...
Samuel W. Dunn
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Seward CountyCounty: SewardDeath Date: 1/5/1892Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDuring a complicated political situation in Seward County involving a political faction, loyal to the late Samuel Wood, and the...
Edward Hageman
Type of Officer: ConstableJurisdiction: LoganCounty: PhillipsDeath Date: 5/27/1891Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotHageman, the city constable of Logan in Phillips County, was serving a warrant for foreclosure or payment for property held by Cyrus...
John W. Gilley
Type of Officer: Police DetectiveJurisdiction: Kansas CityCounty: WyandotteDeath Date: 5/13/1889Added to Memorial: 1997Circumstances of Death: StabbingOfficer Gilley was attending a preliminary hearing for two suspects he had arrested earlier for burglary. While...
John M. Cross
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Stevens CountyCounty: StevensDeath Date: 7/25/1888Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: GunshotSheriff John Cross and a posse of four men entered the Cherokee neutral strip early on the morning of July 23rd to aid...
Edward R. Kyser
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: ParsonsCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 12/4/1886Added to Memorial: 1994Circumstances of Death: GunshotIsaac Irwin McCann stole a hat at the Centropolis Hotel in Parsons the night of December 2, 1886. The owner of the hat and of...
William T. Cody
Type of Officer: ConstableJurisdiction: BeaumontCounty: ButlerDeath Date: 6/2/1885Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn June 2, 1885, Constable Thomas Cody was fatally wounded by gunfire while attempting to arrest Dave Hensey at a railroad...
James Frank Harrington
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: City of JewellCounty: JewellDeath Date: 3/14/1885Added to Memorial: 2019Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn March 14, 1885 the Rice County Kansas sheriff and a deputy traveled to Jewell County in search of a horse thief. The...
Cassius M. Hollister
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Sumner CountyCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 10/18/1884Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Sheriff “Cash” Hollister, a former deputy U.S. Marshal, and George Davis, a member of a posse, attempted to...
Edward Scotten
Type of Officer: Deputy PolicemanJurisdiction: HunnewellCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 9/2/1884Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Ed Scotten was killed when he attempted to disarm four cowboys who were “shooting up” the town. On August 12, 1884,...
Thomas C. Nixon
Type of Officer: Assistant City MarshalJurisdiction: Dodge CityCounty: FordDeath Date: 7/21/1884Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWell-known former buffalo hunter Nixon had a long-running feud with another well-known character, “Mysterious” Dave...
Albert T. Shenneman
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Cowley CountyCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 1/25/1883Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: AccidentSheriff Shenneman had received notice that Charles Cobb, who had killed Valley Falls Marshal Daniel Weiser, was traveling in...
Daniel Weiser
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Valley FallsCounty: JeffersonDeath Date: 1/6/1883Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotThe night prior to Weiser’s death, Charles Cobb and another man had argued after a lyceum presentation, Cobb shot at the...
George S. Brown
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: CaldwellCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 6/22/1882Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotBrown was at the Red Light saloon attempting to disarm two brothers, Steve and Jess Green, for violation of the Caldwell gun...
Michael Meagher
Type of Officer: Special PolicemanJurisdiction: CaldwellCounty: SumnerDeath Date: 12/17/1881Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotBeing threatened by a group of about five cowboys, former city marshal Meagher went to Caldwell City Marshal John Wilson...
James A Spillman
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Lyon CountyCounty: LyonDeath Date: 8/4/1881Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: StabbingDeputy Spillman had escorted an inmate named Edward Johnson to Johnson’s former apartment at the latter’s request to look for...
Lewis M. Chew
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: AtchisonCounty: AtchisonDeath Date: 10/27/1879Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn October 26, 1879, a drunken man who was attempting to buy more liquor at a local saloon was refused service. The man...
R. H. Clift
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: ChetopaCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 8/25/1878Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotInformed that a John Richmond was in possession of a stolen mule and was heading for Missouri, Marshal Clift, who was also a...
Harry T. McCarty
Type of Officer: Deputy U.S. MarshalJurisdiction: Dodge CityCounty: FordDeath Date: 7/13/1878Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy U.S. Marshal McCarty was drinking in the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City when on Thomas Roach, angered that he...
Edward J. Masterson
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: Dodge CityCounty: FordDeath Date: 4/9/1878Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotCity Marshal Masterson (older brother of Bat Masterson) disarmed Jack Wagner, who was drunk and in violation of Dodge City’s...
Alexander Ramsey
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Ellis CountyCounty: EllisDeath Date: 6/7/1875Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotEllis County Sheriff Ramsey, noted for his effectiveness as an officer, was traveling to Stockton in Rooks County, with Deputy...
Charles G. Bratton
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: BurlingameCounty: OsageDeath Date: 12/27/1874Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: StabbingBurlingame city police officer Bratton was attempting to assist the city marshal in restraining Dan Wortz from abusing his...
Charles Hale
Type of Officer: Railroad Special Officer Jurisdiction: Hutchinson County: Reno Death Date: 10/7/1874Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: During the late evening of October 7, 1874, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Special Officer Charles Hale, age...
Charles Hale
Type of Officer: Special OfficerJurisdiction: Atchison, Topeka, Santa Fe RailroadCounty: RenoDeath Date: 8/7/1874Added to Memorial: 2021Circumstances of Death: GunshotDuring the late evening of October 7, 1874, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Special Officer...
William Hogsett
Type of Officer: Special PoliceJurisdiction: OswegoCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 10/3/1874Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: StabbingWilliam Hugest attempted to quiet a disturbance at the county fairgrounds between John Bagby and another man who were in an...
Chauncey B. Whitney
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Ellsworth CountyCounty: EllsworthDeath Date: 8/15/1873Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotWhitney, well-known lawman and scout who had participated in the Battle of Beecher Island in 1868, became sheriff of...
Marcus L. Parker
Type of Officer: Deputy U.S. MarshalJurisdiction: SilverdaleCounty: CowleyDeath Date: 3/22/1873Added to Memorial: 2018Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy US Marshal Marcus L. Parker was shot and killed during a gun battle on March 22, 1873, as he and other law...
C. M. Taylor
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: Baxter SpringsCounty: CherokeeDeath Date: 6/29/1872Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotMayor J. R. Boyd of Baxter Springs was involved in a dispute with the lumberyard owner over the mayor’s debt. A fight...
Mike Williams
Type of Officer: Policeman/Special DeputyJurisdiction: AbileneCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 10/5/1871Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotCity Marshal James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok became involved with a group of men when he attempted to quell their...
Carlos B. King
Type of Officer: Deputy SheriffJurisdiction: Harvey CountyCounty: HarveyDeath Date: 9/23/1871Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotDeputy Sheriff Carlos King had disarmed one Thomas Edwards for disturbing the peace and had run him out of town. Edwards...
Peter R. Lanihan
Type of Officer: SheriffJurisdiction: Ellis CountyCounty: EllisDeath Date: 7/18/1871Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotA former deputy of Wild Bill Hickok, “Rattlesnake Pete” Lanihan (or Lanahan) defeated Hickok in the sheriff’s election of 1869....
H. C. Seaman
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: Baxter SpringsCounty: CherokeeDeath Date: 11/7/1870Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotA “fallen woman” by the name of Nellie Starr, who is listed in the Cherokee County census as operating a brothel, became...
Thomas J. Smith
Type of Officer: Chief of PoliceJurisdiction: AbileneCounty: DickinsonDeath Date: 11/2/1870Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Shot then decapitatedThomas Smith, chief of police of Abilene, was well known for his effectiveness in that position. During the...
Henry Bodine
Type of Officer: UndersheriffJurisdiction: Labette CountyCounty: LabetteDeath Date: 4/20/1870Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: Accidental GunshotSeveral versions exist of the shooting of Undersheriff Bodine by a man named Patterson. One indicates that...
Ira M. Buchanan
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: Junction CityCounty: GearyDeath Date: 11/13/1869Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotCity Marshal Daniel McCleery, because of continued disturbances by a group of Texans, ordered the “rum” and billiard room...
William Semans
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: EllsworthCounty: EllsworthDeath Date: 8/2/1869Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotEllsworth city policeman William “Apache Bill” Semans was attempting to stop a row at the dance hall and was killed during...
Felix A. Boller
Type of Officer: City MarshalJurisdiction: OgdenCounty: RileyDeath Date: 12/12/1866Added to Memorial: 1987Circumstances of Death: GunshotBoller, marshal of Ogden, observed some soldiers entering the house of a female citizen. The story, as related by the newspapers,...
Jesse Dennis
Type of Officer: DeputyJurisdiction: NemahaCounty: NemahaDeath Date: 11/20/1866Added to Memorial: 2006Circumstances of Death: GunshotOn November 19, 1866, Nemaha County Sheriff William Boulton formed a posse of several local men to join in the pursuit of four horse...
John F. Curry
Type of Officer: Police OfficerJurisdiction: LeavenworthCounty: LeavenworthDeath Date: 5/2/1866Added to Memorial: 1988Circumstances of Death: StabbingA stonemason by the name of Charles Quinn was fired by his superintendent. Quinn returned with a revolver and butcher...