List of Baltimore Police Department officers killed in the line of duty
The following Baltimore Police Department officers have been killed in the line of duty or while off-duty.
Officers
Key| Name | Rank | Badge Number | Unit | Date of death | Age | Cause of death | Notes |
| George Workner | Night Watchman | Patrol | March 15, 1808 | Stabbed | |||
| John Omayer | Night Watchman | Patrol | November 13, 1856 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 11/4/1856. | ||
| William Jourdan | Sergeant | Patrol | October 14, 1857 | Gunfire | |||
| Benjamin Benton | Police Officer | Patrol | September 22, 1858 | 45 | Gunfire | ||
| Robert M. Rigdon | Police Officer | Patrol | November 8, 1858 | Gunfire | |||
| James Murphy | Police Officer | Patrol | July 5, 1870 | 23 | Assault | ||
| Joseph Clark | Police Officer | Patrol | May 22, 1871 | 50 | Gunfire | ||
| John H. Richards | Detective | CID | September 14, 1871 | 41 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 8/31/1871. | |
| John Christopher | Police Officer | Patrol | August 18, 1872 | Gunfire | |||
| Franklin Fullum | Police Officer | Patrol | November 22, 1872 | 39 | Duty related illness | L/D Contracted smallpox while struggling with a suspect on 11/1/1872. | |
| James T. Harvey | Police Officer | Patrol | January 28, 1873 | 28 | Duty related illness | Contracted smallpox while on duty. | |
| Charles W. Fisher | Police Officer | 52 | Patrol | January 6, 1884 | 44 | Drowned | |
| John T. Lloyd | Police Officer | Patrol | July 4, 1889 | 30 | Gunfire | ||
| Jacob Zapp | Police Officer | Patrol | July 15, 1891 | 57 | Struck by train | ||
| James T. Dunn | Police Officer | Patrol | June 20, 1894 | 34 | Struck by train | With Police Officer Michael Neary. | |
| Michael Neary | Police Officer | Patrol | June 20, 1894 | Struck by train | With Police Officer James T. Dunn. | ||
| John J. Dailey | Police Officer | Patrol | October 17, 1895 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 8/26/1895. | ||
| Alonzo B. Bishop | Police Officer | Patrol | August 29, 1899 | Automobile accident | |||
| Charles J. Donahue | Police Officer | Patrol | May 20, 1902 | 27 | Gunfire | ||
| Matthew Boone | Police Officer | Patrol | January 26, 1905 | 62 | Heart Attack | ||
| Thomas H. Worthington | Police Officer | Patrol | March 4, 1909 | 54 | Electrocuted | ||
| George C. Sauer | Police Officer | Patrol | April 18, 1915 | Gunfire | |||
| Herbert Bitzel | Police Officer | Patrol | September 20, 1915 | 28 | Struck by streetcar | ||
| Michael J. Burns | Police Officer | Patrol | January 22, 1917 | 28 | Electrocuted | ||
| John J. Lanahan | Police Officer | Patrol | July 3, 1919 | Gunfire | |||
| Michael J. Egan | Police Officer | Patrol | October 2, 1920 | 49 | Heart Attack | ||
| Frank L. Lantham | Police Officer | Patrol | March 2, 1924 | 35 | Gunfire | ||
| Charles S. Frank | Police Officer | Patrol | June 20, 1924 | Gunfire | |||
| George D. Hart | Police Officer | Patrol | January 2, 1925 | Motorcycle accident | |||
| Patrick J. Conniff | Police Officer | Patrol | May 18, 1925 | 44 | Struck by streetcar | ||
| John E. Harris | Patrolman | Patrol | July 3, 1925 | 73 | Struck by vehicle | BCPPD | |
| Roy L. Mitchell | Police Officer | Patrol | November 1, 1925 | Struck by vehicle | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 10/28/1935. | ||
| Webster E. Schumann | Police Officer | 849 | Patrol | June 29, 1926 | 31 | Gunfire | With Police Clerk Thomas J. Dillon. |
| Thomas J. Dillon | Police Clerk | Patrol | July 12, 1926 | 41 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 6/29/1926. With Police Officer Webster E. Schumann. | |
| William Francis Doehler | Police Officer | 620 | Patrol | August 5, 1927 | Gunfire | ||
| George M. J. May | Sergeant | Patrol | February 12, 1928 | Automobile accident | |||
| Joseph F. Carroll | Sergeant | 517 | Patrol | November 19, 1928 | Gunfire | ||
| John P. Burns | Police Officer | Patrol | January 7, 1931 | 45 | Gunfire | ||
| William A. Bell | Police Officer | Patrol | January 2, 1932 | 52 | Gunfire | ||
| Thomas F. Steinacker | Police Officer | Patrol | October 4, 1932 | Accidental | |||
| John R. J. Block | Police Officer | Patrol | April 21, 1933 | Gunfire | |||
| John Blank | Police Officer | Patrol | February 12, 1934 | Gunfire | |||
| John A. Stapf | Police Officer | Patrol | November 2, 1934 | Struck by streetcar | |||
| Henry W. Sudmeier | Police Officer | Patrol | December 20, 1934 | 35 | Gunfire | ||
| Max Hirsh | Police Officer | Patrol | February 14, 1935 | 41 | Accidental | ||
| Arthur H. Malinofski | Police Officer | Patrol | October 31, 1935 | Gunfire | |||
| Leo Bacon | Police Officer | Patrol | October 9, 1936 | Accidental | |||
| Carroll Hanley | Police Officer | Patrol | October 29, 1936 | 64 | Vehicular Assault | ||
| John T. King | Police Officer | Patrol | December 28, 1936 | Struck by vehicle | |||
| Thomas J. Barlow | Police Officer | Patrol | December 31, 1937 | Vehicular Assault | |||
| Joseph Edward Keene | Chief Engineer | Engineers | November 1, 1938 | 50 | Fall | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 10/24/38. Contracted pneumonia in while in the hospital. | |
| William L. Ryan | Police Officer | 930 | Patrol | June 13, 1940 | 44 | Stabbed | |
| William J. Woodcock | Police Officer | Patrol | June 13, 1943 | Assault | |||
| William S. Knight | Police Officer | Patrol | November 7, 1943 | 35 | Gunfire | ||
| Joseph C. Waldsachs | Police Officer | Patrol | January 29, 1944 | 54 | Fall | ||
| John B. Bealefeld | Police Officer | Patrol | September 10, 1945 | Duty related illness | |||
| Elmer A. Noon | Police Officer | 488 | Patrol | November 20, 1946 | 42 | Heart Attack | |
| Fred R. Unger | Police Officer | 1434 | Patrol | January 13, 1947 | 38 | Gunfire | |
| Joseph Daniel Benedict | Police Officer | Patrol | February 13, 1948 | 23 | Gunfire | ||
| Thomas J. Burns | Police Officer | 1559 | Patrol | October 1, 1948 | 24 | Motorcycle Accident | |
| John W. Arnold | Police Officer | Patrol | December 30, 1948 | 53 | Gunfire | ||
| James L. Joyce | Police Officer | Patrol | April 4, 1949 | 42 | Automobile Accident | ||
| Thomas J. O'Neill | Police Officer | Patrol | October 16, 1949 | 50 | Duty related illness | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 10/15/1949. | |
| Charles M. Hilbert | Police Officer | 1237 | Patrol | August 4, 1950 | 27 | Vehicular Assault | |
| Roland W. Morgan | Police Officer | Patrol | January 6, 1951 | 39 | Vehicular Assault | ||
| James L. Scholl | Sergeant | Patrol | August 1, 1953 | 41 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 7/20/1953. | |
| Alfred P. Bobelis | Police Officer | Patrol | February 14, 1954 | 47 | Vehicular Assault | ||
| Aubrey L. Lowman | Police Officer | Patrol | April 19, 1954 | 37 | Gunfire | ||
| Walter D. Davis | Police Officer | Patrol | July 1, 1954 | Automobile Accident | |||
| James J. Purcell | Sergeant | 252 | Patrol | October 24, 1955 | 51 | Gunfire | |
| John R. Phelan | Police Officer | Patrol | September 29, 1956 | Gunfire | |||
| John F. Andrews | Police Officer | 2220 | Patrol | October 9, 1957 | 33 | Vehicle Pursuit | |
| Robert K. Nelson | Police Officer | 671 | Patrol | September 19, 1958 | 25 | Motorcycle Accident | |
| Richard H. Duvall, Jr. | Police Officer | Patrol | January 11, 1959 | 28 | Gunfire | ||
| Warren V. Eckert | Police Officer | 2229 | Patrol | November 16, 1960 | 27 | Motorcycle Accident | |
| Henry Smith, Jr. | Police Officer | Patrol | April 7, 1962 | 31 | Gunfire | ||
| Richard D. Seebo | Police Officer | 2465 | Patrol | May 26, 1962 | 26 | Gunfire | |
| Edward J. Kowalewski | Police Officer | Patrol | July 2, 1962 | 35 | Gunfire | ||
| Francis R. Stransky | Police Officer | Patrol | January 10, 1964 | 40 | Heart Attack | ||
| Claude J. Profili | Police Officer | Patrol | February 6, 1964 | 35 | Gunfire | ||
| Walter Patrick Matthys | Police Officer | Patrol | September 11, 1964 | 21 | Gunfire | ||
| Teddy L. Bafford | Police Officer | Patrol | October 15, 1964 | 33 | Gunfire | ||
| Jack Lee Cooper | Sergeant | Patrol | December 25, 1964 | 43 | Gunfire | ||
| Charles R. Ernest | Police Officer | Patrol | January 20, 1965 | 44 | Struck by vehicle | ||
| Robert Henry Kuhn | Police Officer | Patrol | July 22, 1965 | 23 | Gunfire | ||
| William J. Baumer | Police Officer | Patrol | January 25, 1967 | Heart Attack | |||
| Frederick K. Kontner | Police Officer | Patrol | February 10, 1967 | Gunfire | |||
| John C. Williams | Police Officer | Patrol | August 21, 1967 | Fire | |||
| Richard F. Bosak | Detective | CID | April 18, 1968 | 40 | Gunfire | ||
| George F. Heim | Police Officer | Patrol | January 16, 1970 | 42 | Struck by vehicle | ||
| Henry M. Mickey | Police Officer | Patrol | March 24, 1970 | 28 | Gunfire | ||
| Donald W. Sager | Police Officer | 2355 | Patrol | April 24, 1970 | 35 | Gunfire | |
| Carl Peterson, Jr. | Police Officer | Patrol | June 12, 1971 | 46 | Gunfire | ||
| Martin Webb | Lieutenant | Patrol | August 3, 1971 | Drowned | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 8/1/1971. | ||
| Lorenzo Arnest Gray | Police Officer | Patrol | July 26, 1972 | 24 | Gunfire | ||
| Robert M. Hurley | Police Officer | Patrol | March 28, 1973 | 46 | Heart Attack | ||
| Norman Frederick Buchman | Police Officer | 2253 | Patrol | April 3, 1973 | 24 | Gunfire | |
| Calvin M. Rodwell | Police Officer | 1869 | Patrol | September 22, 1973 | 34 | Gunfire | O/D Working part-time as a cab driver during incident. |
| Frank Warren Whitby Jr. | Police Officer | Patrol | May 5, 1974 | 22 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 4/5/1974. | |
| Frank William Grunder, Jr. | Detective Sergeant | CID | August 1, 1974 | Gunfire | |||
| Milton I. Spell | Police Officer | 563 | Patrol | August 15, 1974 | 27 | Gunfire | |
| Martin Joseph Greiner | Police Officer | Patrol | December 10, 1974 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 11/30/1974. | ||
| Edward S. Sherman | Police Officer | 3085 | Patrol | September 13, 1975 | 28 | Duty related illness | |
| Timothy B. Ridenour | Police Officer | 3074 | Patrol | October 27, 1975 | 26 | Gunfire | |
| Jimmy Dale Halcomb | Police Officer | 293 | Patrol | April 16, 1976 | 31 | Gunfire | |
| Edgar J. Rumpf | Police Officer | Patrol | February 15, 1978 | 33 | Fire | ||
| Robert John Barlow | Sergeant | Patrol | April 23, 1978 | 43 | Heart Attack | O/D Suffered heart attack an hour after getting off duty. | |
| Nelson F. Bell, Jr. | Police Officer | Patrol | October 27, 1978 | 29 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 10/22/1978. | |
| William D. Albers | Police Officer | Patrol | August 19, 1979 | Gunfire | |||
| Ronald L. Tracey | Police Officer | Patrol | July 20, 1981 | 29 | Gunfire | ||
| Marcellus Ward | Detective | 45 | DEA Task Force | December 3, 1984 | 36 | Gunfire | |
| Richard J. Lear | Police Officer | Patrol | October 8, 1985 | 61 | Struck by vehicle | ||
| Vincent J. Adolfo | Police Officer | Patrol | November 18, 1985 | 24 | Gunfire | ||
| Richard Thomas Miller | Police Officer | 1998 | Patrol | July 21, 1986 | 55 | Vehicular assault | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 6/12/1986. |
| Robert Alexander | Police Officer | Patrol | September 20, 1986 | 22 | Struck by vehicle | ||
| William J. Martin | Police Officer | 2520 | Patrol | October 10, 1989 | 37 | Gunfire | |
| Ira Neil Weiner | Police Officer | Patrol | September 21, 1992 | 28 | Gunfire | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 9/19/1992. | |
| Herman A. Jones | Police Officer | Patrol | May 26, 1993 | 50 | Gunfire | O/D Murdered while waiting for carryout food. | |
| Owen Eugene Sweeney, Jr. | Lieutenant | Patrol | May 7, 1997 | 47 | Gunfire | ||
| Harold Jerome Carey | Police Officer | Patrol | October 30, 1998 | 28 | Automobile accident | ||
| Barry Winston Wood | Flight Officer | Aviation | November 4, 1998 | 50 | Aircraft accident | ||
| Jamie Allen Roussey | Police Officer | Patrol | March 8, 2000 | 22 | Automobile accident | ||
| Kevon Malik Gavin | Police Officer | Patrol | April 21, 2000 | 27 | Vehicular assault | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 4/20/2000. | |
| John David Platt | Sergeant | Patrol | October 14, 2000 | 35 | Vehicular assault | With Police Officer Kevin Joseph McCarthy. | |
| Kevin Joseph McCarthy | Police Officer | 2840 | Patrol | October 14, 2000 | 36 | Vehicular assault | With Sergeant John David Platt. |
| Michael Joseph Cowdery, Jr. | Agent | Operations | March 13, 2001 | 31 | Gunfire | ||
| Crystal Dennen Sheffield | Police Officer | Patrol | August 22, 2002 | 35 | Automobile accident | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 8/21/2002. | |
| Thomas G. Newman | Detective | 397 | CID | November 23, 2002 | 37 | Gunfire | O/D Murdered outside a bar in retaliation for testimony in a case in which he was shot and wounded in the previous year. |
| Brian Donte Winder | Police Officer | Patrol | July 3, 2004 | 36 | Gunfire | ||
| Anthony A. Byrd | Police Officer | Patrol | May 19, 2006 | 31 | Automobile accident | ||
| Troy Lamont Chesley, Sr. | Detective | 874 | Public Housing | January 9, 2007 | 34 | Gunfire | O/D Murdered while attempting to stop a robbery while off duty. |
| James Earl Fowler, III | Police Officer | TAC | September 27, 2010 | 61 | Automobile accident | ||
| Thomas Russell Portz, Jr. | Police Officer | 1661 | Patrol | October 20, 2010 | 32 | Automobile accident | |
| William Henry Torbit, Jr. | Police Officer | 2682 | Operations | January 9, 2011 | 33 | Gunfire | Shot by uniformed officers while in plain clothes. |
| Forrest Edward "Dino" Taylor | Police Officer | 451 | Patrol | August 29, 2012 | 44 | Automobile accident | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 2/18/2012. |
| Craig Chandler | Police Officer | Patrol | January 9, 2015 | 27 | Vehicle pursuit | L/D Succumbed to injuries sustained on 11/23/2014. |