Category: Fallen Officer

The second deputy shot in Peach County, Georgia, while responding to a report of a dispute among neighbors Sunday evening has died. (FOX)- Agents with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation returned to Ralph Stanley Elrod’s home for a second day trying to get answers. Their focus Tuesday, according to one special agent: the trajectory of rounds Elrod […]

Police in east-central Arizona were hunting for a gunman after a shooting outside a fast-food restaurant killed an officer. (FOX)- The Show Low officer, Darrin Reed, died in a nearby hospital several hours after the afternoon shooting. Police identified the suspect as 36-year-old Daniel Erickson and said he was seen leaving a Show Low hotel […]

About 1,500 law enforcement officers joined more than 1,000 other mourners Monday at a funeral for a one of two Iowa police officers who were fatally shot just minutes apart last week. (FOX)- Troves of uniformed officers slowly filed into a West Des Moines church to remember Sgt. Anthony Beminio, the 38-year-old sergeant who was […]

A Northern California couple was charged Monday in the gruesome murder of a 21-year-old volunteer sheriff. (FOX)- Oakland prosecutors believe Laura Rodgers and her boyfriend Curtys Taylor planned for days the murder of Karla Ramirez-Segoviano, who was found stabbed and burned almost beyond recognition. The SF Gate reported that Rodgers and Taylor were charged with […]

A Georgia police officer was shot and killed and another was wounded on Sunday, authorities said. (FOX)- Peach County Coroner Kerry Rooks said Peach County Officer Patrick Sondron was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m. at Peach County Medical Center. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said Peach County deputies responded to a report of a dispute […]

One NYPD officer was killed and another wounded in a shootout in the Bronx Friday afternoon following a 911 call to report a home invasion. The gunman also was killed. (FOX)-New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio identified the dead officer as Sgt. Paul Tuozzolo, a 19-year veteran of the force and father of two young […]

Suspect ID’d in separate ambush-style attacks that killed 2 Iowa police officers (FOX)- Authorities in Iowa have identified the suspected gunman in the ambush-style attacks early Wednesday morning– occuring 20 minutes apart– that claimed the lives of two police officers who were sitting in their patrol cars. Authorities said Scott Michael Greene, 46, is considered […]

 Authorities have arrested a suspect in the fatal shooting of a sheriff’s deputy in western Wisconsin. (FOX)- Rusk County Sheriff Jeff Wallace says the suspect surrendered Sunday morning as investigators searched for him in a residence in Conrath, about 130 miles northeast of Minneapolis. The suspect is jailed pending formal charges. Deputy Dan Glaze was […]

A Louisville police detective stopped to ask a man for directions for a late-night meal when both pedestrians were struck and killed by an alleged drunken driver in Lexington, Kentucky, authorities said. (FOX)- Detective Jason Schweitzer was visiting Lexington for a Fraternal Order of Police conference. His death early Saturday was announced on the Louisville […]

A Fairbanks, Ak. police officer who was shot earlier this month died Friday of complications from surgery related to his injuries, officials said. (FOX)- Sgt. Allen Brandt, an 11-year veteran, had been hospitalized Thursday for a scheduled procedure to have shrapnel removed from his eye. Fairbanks Acting Police Chief Brad Johnson told reporters that Brandt […]