Officer Hugh Burns was shot and killed on June 13, 1883, by a young Kentuckian who had arrived in the city only a few hours before the shooting incident. Officer Burns lived in a small house near Union Station. While at home, he heard pistol shots and ran from his house in civilian clothes to investigate. The off-duty police officer discovered there was trouble at a boarding house near Capitol Avenue and Henry Street. As Officer Burns entered the house, he was fatally wounded by a pistol shot fired by John Jeter, who was engaged in a fight with another man. Jeter surrendered to arriving police officers. At his trial, Jeter stated he thought Officer Burns was a friend of the man he was fighting. Jeter claimed self-defense. In one of the most sensational trials in the history of the local courts, Jeter was acquitted.

Officer Charles A. Ware was a bicycle patrol officer who responded to a disturbance at the O'Keys Saloon near Georgia and East Streets on April 28, 1897. A gang calling themselves the Bungaloos was engaged in a fight when Officer Ware arrived on the scene. During Officer Ware's arrest of one of the gang, John Ferriter, Ferriter pulled a gun and shot the officer in the head, killing him instantly. The gunman was arrested by Officer Thomas E. Rochford a short distance from the scene of the crime. Ferriter was sentenced to life in prison. He was released on parole in 1911.

Patrolman Edward William Dolby was killed on July 14, 1906, when a heavy charge of electricity surged through Circuit 7 of the police department's Gamewell call box system. Officer Dolby was in the act of insterting his key into the lock of the box at Kentucky Avenue and the White River bridge, preparing to make his hourly call, when the current passed through his body. The shock caused Dolby to stagger backward and fall to the ground. His partner, Samuel Rariden ran to Dolby and heard him gasp out, "Don't touch it!"

Seeing Dolby was badly injured, Rariden ran to the nearest telephone and notified the Police Station. When he returned, Dolby was dead. The patrol wagon arrived a few minutes later and transported Dolby's body to the morgue where it was determined he had been electrocuted.

There were 11 other call boxes on Circuit 7, and several other policemen were badly shocked on July 14. Certified electricians were unable to determine why the surge occurred. They speculated that it was due to the crossing of the Gamewell wire and a wire on the circuit of the city electric lights. A storm during the morning of the 14th may have contributed to the accident.

Patrolman Dolby was survived by a widow and two children. His funeral took place at his home; interment was in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Officer Charles J. Russell and his partner, Officer Edward J. Petticord, were shot and killed in an incident that occurred shortly after 8 o'clock in the evening of Sunday, September 30, 1906, near 24th Street and Indianapolis Avenue. Russell and Petticord were in the neighborhood searching for subjects who had reportedly been involved in a drunken fight when they came across Jesse Coe and George Williams. As Russell stepped forward to search Coe, Coe drew a revolver and fired three shots toward Russell at a range of about two feet. Russell sank to the ground and Coe started to run. Officer Petticord started after Coe, with George Williams in the rear. Petticord ran about 100 feet when Williams drew a revolver and fired a bullet into the officer's back. Petticord staggered and fell in a leaning position over a fence post. Coe and Williams then disappeared.

Officers Russell and Petticord were both hurriedly taken to the City Hospital. Russell's death followed a short time afterward, and Petticord died in the early morning hours of October 2.

The news of the incident resulted in the organization of a systematic search. Police wagons filled with officers and detectives and several bicyclemen raced to the scene. Day men were summoned from their homes, and district patrolmen throughout the city were notified. All outgoing inter-urban cars and freight trains were searched. Men were sent to the outskirts, and all the haunts of Coe and Williams were watched. The police engaged the services of two chauffeurs, and two automobiles loaded with detectives joined the searching troops.

Williams was quickly apprehended where he and Coe roomed at 936 Queen Avenue, a few blocks from the incident. On October 25, 1906, he was convicted and sentenced to death in the Marion County Criminal Court. Williams was executed at the gallows in the State prison in Michigan City on Friday, February 8, 1907. Williams was the last man to have been hanged in Indiana. The electric chair replaced the gallows after his execution.

Jesse Coe, known as a desperado with considerable intelligence, eluded a nation-wide police manhunt until August 25, 1908, when he was killed in a shoot-out with Monroe County, Kentucky, Sheriff J. E. Bryant and his deputies near Marlinsburg, on the Cumberland river. Bryant had been on the look-out for Coe during the two years since the officers' deaths, confident that Coe would show himself sooner or later. The range of hills bordering the Cumberland river east of Tompkinsville was one of the wildest and most sparsely settled districts in Kentucky. Nearly all the inhabitants of the hills were related to the Coe family.

Russell lived with his wife and baby. He also had three sons by a former wife. Funeral services were held at his home on West 28th Street, a few blocks from the place where he was killed. A detail of police officers acted as pallbearers and the escort. After the service, his body was taken to Crown Hill for burial.

Petticord was single and lived with his two sisters and a brother on East McCarty Street. Funeral services were held at Sixth Christian Church. His body is buried at Bethel cemetery.

Both officers had been on the police force for about five years.

Officer Joseph Krupp was shot and killed on April 19, 1910, while questioning two suspicious appearing persons in the railroad yards in Haughville. Officer Albert C. Groves also was shot in the incident, but was not seriously injured. Additional police units were called to the scene, and after a systematic search of the railroad yards, Walter Whitelock and George Douglas were arrested. Whitelock confessed and said he did all the shooting at the police, and that Douglas did not draw his weapon.

Officer Arthur F. Barrows a bicycle officer, died on June 4, 1911, at 1000 Indiana Avenue. A live wire had blown down after a storm. When Officer Barrows arrived on the scene, children were near the wire. Having at one time been an electrician, Officer Barrows tried to tie the wire around the pole from which it had fallen. The wire slipped and struck the officer's right hand, and Officer Barrows fell to the sidewalk. Attempts to revive Barrows were made by a number of spectators, among whom was Lon McClure , a former saloon keeper and recognized enemy of the bicycle officer. Barrows was taken from the scene by ambulance, but died just as the ambulance reached the hospital entrance. Barrows was 31 years old when he died. He had been appointed to the Department on June 3, 1907, and served as a patrolman until April 9, 1909, when he was made a bicycle man.

Officer John McKinney was shot by his partner, Officer Arthur F. Moore, on March 28, 1912, during a personal quarrel that occurred near New York Street and Kealing Avenue. Officer Moore was arrested and found not guilty on September 16, 1912, at a trial that took place in Martinsville, Indiana.

Officer Elmer C. Anderson, bicycle patrolman at the East 17th substation, was accidentally shot by George Stone, his partner, while the two were attempting to capture a vicious dog at the rear of 1531 Yandes Street on January 14, 1915. Anderson and Stone had responded to a call that a mad dog was terrorizing the neighborhood and had bitten a 13-year old child who was playing near the front of his home. As the men alighted from their motorcycles, the dog darted between them. The dog sprang at Anderson, who jumped aside just as his partner fired a shot. Jumping in the path of the bullet, Anderson was struck by the bullet in the right side of his back. The bullet then passed through his stomach. A neighbor called the ambulance, and Anderson was rushed to the city hospital where he died the next morning (January 15), at 8:00.

Anderson and Stone had been assigned together for six months, and during that time formed a close friendship. They were regarded one of the most efficient teams in the department. Stone was heartbroken by the incident. The coroner ruled the shooting accidental and exonerated Stone from all blame.

Prior to his appointment to the police force in April 1912, Anderson was a railroader. He was promoted to bicycleman by Chief Perrott in January 1914. Anderson was 28 at the time of his death. He was survived by his widow and a 4-year old daughter.

Lieutenant James D. Hagerty was shot and killed on June 23, 1916. Charles Wheeler had taken a revolver from a police officer during a fight. Lieutenant Hagerty trailed Wheeler to Eagle Creek between Washington and Morris Streets where he was ambushed by Wheeler. Wheeler was later captured and received a life sentence.

Officer John P. DeRossette, 33, a mounted policeman, was shot by one of two robbery suspects whom he attempted to arrest at Brightwood and Roosevelt Avenues, at 4:15 in the afternoon of January 24, 1917. The shot entered DeRossette's back and lodged in the abdomen. Officer DeRossette died of his injuries at City Hospital on January 30.

The shooting of Officer DeRossette was the climax of a search for two men who had robbed a number of groceries in previous days. DeRossette ran across the suspects as they were riding in the rear of a moving van and recognized them from descriptions that had been give to police by victims of the robberies. The shooting occurred in front of the Joseph Schaffer barber shop on Brightwood Avenue, near Roosevelt Avenue.

In at statement made at the scene before he was taken to City Hospital, Officer DeRossette said he called to the suspects, "What are you doing on that wagon?" He approached the suspects, and they jumped from the wagon. One of the suspects "drew his revolver before I had a chance to cover him, while I was searching the other man," DeRossette said, "and fired at me. I staggered back and leaned against a building and got my revolver out of my pocket. I started to fire, but the horses on the wagon became frightened by the shot and ran forward, shielding the (suspects). I fired five shots at them."

The suspects fled the scene, running toward the Big Four Railroad. Squads of police were detailed to aid in a search, and the facts of the shooting and description of the men were given to all the policemen in the city through the Gamewell system. Patrolman Henry C. Wilharm captured the suspects as they walked south on Highland Avenue. The prisoners identified themselves as Claude Taylor and Ernest Cooley. They were taken to City Hospital where DeRossette identified them as his assailants. After Officer DeRossette's death on January 30, Taylor was slated for murder and Cooley was charged with being an accessory to the murder.

Officer DeRossette was appointed to the Police Department in April 1910. He was placed on the police honor roll because of his fearless work performed during the flood of 1915. During most of his service, he was a mounted policeman, assigned to the Brightwood district.

Officer DeRossette was buried at Crown Hill Cemetery. The funeral procession was escorted by the mounted squad, the drill team, and the Police Band. Cola, the white horse which Officer DeRossette rode throughout his service as a mounted policeman, was led in the procession.

Officer DeRossette was survived by his wife.

During a blizzard on the evening of January 12, 1918, Officer Marion E. Ellis, 47, entered the Polar Ice and Fuel Company at Northwestern Avenue and 20th Street with his partner, Officer John J. Sullivan. Officer Ellis stepped through a door leading to the basement and fell to the bottom of the stairs, fracturing his skull. He was taken to City Hospital where he died on January 23.

Officer Ellis had been a member of the police department for nine years and was survived by a wife and 13-year old daughter. A detail of police served as pallbearers at Officer Ellis's funeral. He is buried in Crown Hill Cemetery.

Sergeant Wade Hull, 48, was shot and killed during a raid of a dice game at 216 Anderson Street shortly before 10:00 pm on September 10, 1919.

Numerous complaints had been made by citizens reporting that gambling games were in progress at the Anderson Street address. Lieutenant Cox, Sergeant Hull, and Patrolmen Nagelson and Hare were sent to the address on the evening of September 10 to conduct a raid. The men divided after arriving at the house, with Cox and Nagelson going to the rear door and Hull and Hare going to the front door.

Sergeant Hull pushed open the front door and rushed into the middle room of the house where the game was in progress. Hare followed, but stopped in the darkened front room to take two of the players into custody. While there, Hare heard the shot fired.

Sergeant Hull fell in the doorway. Lieutenant Cox and Patrolman Nagelson also heard the shot and broke in the rear door, reaching Hull just minutes before he died. The bullet had severed Hull's jugular vein.

When the men engaged in the dice game heard the police outside, they stampeded and jumped through a side window into a narrow courtway at the side of the house. The men were rounded up by police squads scouring the city immediately after the shooting. Upon investigation and interviews with a number of witnesses, for the most part players who participated in the dice game, Upshaw Northington was arrested and slated on the charge of murder.

Sergeant Hull was unmarried. He was survived by his mother, two brothers, and two sisters. Hull was appointed to the department as a patrolman on March 30, 1897. He walked a beat for several years and on June 6, 1908, he was promoted to a bicycle policeman. Two years later he was transferred to the detective department and served in that department until August 2, 1911, when he was again made a bicycle patrolman. On January 16, 1914, he was reduced to patrolman and continued patrolling a district until December 31, 1918, when he was promoted to a sergeantcy.

The body of Sergeant Hull was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery. Six police sergeants served as pallbearers, and a platoon of mounted police accompanied the procession. Chief of Police Jerry Kinney paid tribute to Sergeant Hull, saying that he was courageous and fearless and one of the best in the department.

Sergeant Maurice Murphy was fatally wounded in a running gun battle on the afternoon of March 4, 1920, in the vicinity of 12th and West Streets. The fight was the climax of a police search for Henry Thomas, alias "Hellcat," on charges of burglary and grand larceny.

The shooting took place after Thomas had been discovered in an alley by Detective Sergeants Sneed and Trabue. The two detectives exchanged shots with Thomas and then called for help. An emergency squad, composed of Lieutenants Ball and Fletcher, Sergeant Murphy, and Driver Harry McGlenn, rushed to the scene.

The emergency squad turned west in an alley between 12th and 13th streets. Sergeant Murphy and Lieutenant Ball left the machine and started west in the alley, their revolvers drawn. Murphy led, with Ball a few feet behind.

Murphy did not see Thomas standing in the rear yard of 536 W. 12th Street. Thomas raised his revolver and fired twice in rapid succession. At the same instant, Lt. Ball fired three times. Moments later, Lt. Fletcher, who had been informed by a bystander of Thomas's location, came up behind Thomas and fired three shots, strking Thomas in the neck. Injured, Thomas fled south to a point two blocks away, where he died while attempting to reload his revolver.

Having been struck by Thomas's bullets in the left hand and abdomen, Murphy fell on his back. His revolver, which he did not have an opportunity to use, fell in the mud at his side. Murphy was carried through the yard to 12th Street and was placed in the emergency automobile and rushed to City Hospital where he was given a transfusion of blood. Attempts to save Sergeant Murphy failed, however, and he died a few minutes before 6 o'clock. Those who were around him said that his mind was continually on his family and that his last spoken words were "Take care of Mary," meaning his 7-year old daughter.

The day before his death, Sergeant Murphy jokingly remarked that he had an "appointment" to meet "Hellcat" on Thursday and that there was no further need for detectives to search for him. About Thomas, Murphy is reported to have remarked, "He's not bad. I'll bring him in."

Born near Castle Island in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1878, Murphy came to the United States as a boy and lived in Indianapolis the greater part of his life. Sergeant Murphy became a member of the police department April 3, 1907. On April 1, 1909, he was promoted to a bicycleman, and in January 1914, he was made a sergeant. For many years of his service, Sergeant Murphy was a running mate of Sergeant Wade Hull who was killed in the line of duty in September 1919.

Maurice Murphy was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. A platoon of mounted police escorted the body from St. Philip Neri Church, Rural and North Streets, to the cemetery.

Chief of Police Jerry Kinney, in speaking of the death of Sergeant Murphy said, "He was congenial at all times and was very intelligent in all his work. He used excellent judgment and was the type of man in whom any one could place the utmost confidence and rest assured that that confidence would not be abused. I can not find words or phrases which would convey how greatly I feel the loss of Sergeant Murphy, both because of a close personal friendship and because of his ability as a policeman. He was energetic and, at all times, fearless. To him every case was important, and he never failed to obtain all details when making an investigation."

Maurice Murphy was survived by his wife and one child, his daughter Mary.

Officer William Whitfield was shot by an unknown gunman on June 18, 1922, in an alley just west of 3600 N. College Avenue. Officer Whitfield was sent to the hospital and lingered near death for several months. He passed away on November 27, 1922. The case remains unsolved. Officer Whitfield was the first black IPD officer to give his life in the line of duty. At the time of his death, he was buried in an unmarked grave. On November 30, 1998, IPD honored Officer Whitfield with a full honor's funeral at Crown Hill Cemetery. A headstone was purchased for his grave with donations made by IPD employees.

Officer Jesse Louden and his partner, Officer Frank Siefert, both motorcycle officers, responded to the report of a prowler near a drug store at 1600 N. Central Avenue on June 14, 1923. The suspect was chased to 1532 1/2 N. Central Avenue. During an exchange of gunfire, Officer Louden was shot. He died three days later on June 17, 1923. Charles E. Henry was arrested for the murder and was sentenced to life in prison. He escaped from the Indiana State Prison on April 10, 1933, and was eventually recaptured. He escaped again on February 17, 1940, and was out for several months before recapture. In 1968, he was released on parole.

Officer John F. Buchanan, 31, was shot and killed by Gene Alger, suspect in an attempted auto theft, on July 9, 1926. Before the shooting, Alger had been taken to Patrolman John Mosbey by a man who stated Alger had attempted to steal his car. As Mosbey and his partner, Patrolman Jesse Hadley, called police headquarters from the Indiana Wholesale Tire Company at 201 North Capitol Avenue, Alger jumped up and fled on foot. Alger darted out, pulling a .45 caliber pistol from his pocket and firing a shot from the doorway. He continued firing as the policemen followed, returning his fire.

Shooting as he ran, Alger fled between the Plaza hotel and the Beyer hotel at 225 N. Capitol Avenue. Breaking the glass in a window at the Beyer, Alger climbed over the sill and was confronted by the hotel owner, E.A. Beyer. Alger forced Beyer, at gunpoint, to go into a closet in hiding with him.

Officer Buchanan was attracted by the firing and left his post at Capitol and Indiana Avenues. Directed by a witness to the second floor where Alger was hiding, Buchanan called for Alger to come out. Alger responded with two shots, one of which struck the officer above the heart. Alger rushed from the closet, fled by Buchanan's body, broke a window, and jumped over a brick wall. Alger continued his flight, shooting one bystander and clubbing another with the butt of his gun. Alger then hijacked a car and commanded the driver to "drive like hell."

Traffic officers Carl Sheets and Alva Lee had been summoned by passers-by. At New York and Illinois Streets, they were confronted by Alger who tried to fire his gun from the running board of the car. The gun did not fire; upon later examination it was found to have been emptied in Alger's dash to escape. Sheets fired two shots, striking Alger. Alger was taken to City Hospital where he gave a statement confirming the events.

Several thousand persons were attracted by the shooting and gathered in the neighborhood through which the chase led. Many assisted police in the pursuit.

Both bystanders wounded by Alger survived their injuries. Officer Buchanan died instantly.

When Officer Buchanan left home on the day of his death, he told his family that he might get back home for lunch that day. As his wife and mother-in-law began to watch for his return, word came that he had been killed.

In anticipation of the time when he would leave the force, Officer Buchanan had attended night school where he studied wood-working and upholstering. He had just completed plans for opening a shop where he expected to do expert cabinet making and upholstering. Many of the pieces in his home had been made by him.

Buchanan, a native of Tennessee, was appointed to the police department on November 11, 1919. On January 16, 1923, he was promoted to the traffic division. At his death, Chief of Police Claude F. Johnson gave tribute saying, "He was popular and efficient and in his death the Indianapolis police department loses a good man."

Funeral services were held at Buchanan's home. A police squad escorted the body from the home to the Simpson Methodist Church and then to the Crown Hill cemetery.

Officer Buchanan was survived by his wife, Bessie.

Officer Charles C. Carter tried to stop a drink-crazed man who had been flourishing a gun near 629 E. Court Street. The man ran behind a telephone pole and fired a bullet that pierced the lungs of Officer Carter. Shot on May 7, 1927, Carter died two days later on May 9 in spite of blood transfusions given by a fellow officer. The murderer escaped. A month after the incident, the case was solved with the arrest of a mental patient, Tilford Roberts, in a sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky. Two witnesses who were at the scene of the shooting identified Roberts.

Motor policeman William C. Mueller, veteran member of the Indianapolis police department, was killed on March 2, 1928. Muller and his partner, Jesse Giles, were investigating a hit-and-run accident at Wyoming and New Jersey Streets. The two were following the supsected perpetrator into an alley between Buchanan and Woodlawn Streets when Mueller suddenly fell backwards and died on the scene of embolus.

Born on January 10, 1872, Officer Mueller was appointed to the police force as a patrolman on January 3, 1912. He was assigned as motor policeman on January 4, 1926. He served in that capacity until his death.

Mueller was survived by his wife and a stepson. He is buried in Crown Hill cemetery.

Officer Norman L. Schoen 29 years old, was shot and fatally wounded by an unknown assailant at about 11 o'clock at night on Tuesday, March 6, 1928, next door to his home at 88 North Irvington Avenue, as he was returning from his beat in west Indianapolis. Officer Schoen was found lying face downward between the sidewalk and the curb with a bullet wound in his back, the bullet having lodged in his heart. He held his flashlight in his hand. A Butler student found Officer Schoen and called a neighboring doctor for assistance. Officer Schoen was carried into his home where he died soon afterward without regaining consciousness.

Officer Schoen was believed to have been shot by someone in an automobile who awaited his arrival to "get him." In reconstructing the story, police pictured Officer Schoen being called to the parked car, where he was shot before he could draw his revolver to defend himself.

A Chrysler automobile seen speeding east on Washington Street shortly after 11 o'clock was believed to have carried the assailant. All cities east of Indianapolis were notified to be on the lookout for suspects, and a police emergency squad went as far east as Greenfield in search of the automobile. Several squads of detectives, augmented by police, were assigned the task of bringing in the murderer.

Officer Schoen had been a member of the police department since the February of the prior year. He served until the last two months as a motorcycle policeman. At the time of his death, he was assigned the task of filling in on districts while patrolmen were on their vacations.

Officer Schoen's thirteen month career was marked by several skirmishes not only with underworld characters, but other citizens as well, and police believed these encounters led the killer to a decision to slay Schoen. Officer Schoen's widow told detectives that her husband mentioned on numerous occasions that "those bootleggers will get me."

Officer Schoen, a lifelong residence of Indianapolis, was a veteran of World War I. He joined the 147th aero squadron motor transport service and drove an ambulance in France for fourteen months. His funeral was a military service attended by hundreds of friends and acquaintances. The funeral cortege of more than 40 cars followed the body to Crown Hill cemetery.

Officer Schoen was survived by his widow and two small daughters. His murder remains unsolved.

Officer Paul P. Miller was shot and killed by two men who had been prowling in the vicinity of a drug store in the 2500 block of North Station Street. Although Officer Miller was wounded, he was able to fire at the suspects. He thought he hit one of them; however, the suspects escaped and were never caught. The shooting occurred on July 17, 1928, and Officer Miller died on July 18, 1928. This case is unsolved.

Motorcycle Patrolman Roscoe C. Shipp, 34 years old, was fatally injured on the night of Tuesday, July 23, 1929, at Delaware and 13th Streets when his motorcycle struck the front wheel of an automobile driven in the opposite direction. Officer Shipp was chasing a speeder he had "clocked" at sixty-two miles an hour when the incident occurred. The driver of the vehicle struck by Officer Shipp was held blameless by witnesses, as Officer Shipp had turned toward the left to draw up beside the speeder. The speeder escaped. Officer Shipp died at City hospital following the amputation of his left leg, which was broken in two places and mangled.

Born in Edinburg, Officer Shipp moved to Indianapolis in his late teens. He worked as a telegraph operator for the Pennsylvania railroad prior to his appointment to the police force in November 1928. He was assigned to the motorcycle squad a month before his death. He was survived by his widow, two brothers, and four sisters. He is buried in Crown Hill cemetery.

A war on speeders was declared by police following the death of Officer Shipp. More than 120 arrests were made during the night of Wednesday, July 24, by a motorcycle squad that had been augmented with the transfer of eight officers from other lines of duty. Every motorcycle owned by the department was pressed into service. None charged with speeding was given leniency. The average fine meted out to the speeders was $10 and costs, which totaled $20. All offenders of the speed law were warned that they would be given jail sentences and have their driver's license revoked if they were arrested for speeding again.

Detective Sergeant Carl W. Heckman , 28, was killed on January 3, 1931, when he and his partner, Detective Sergeant Philip Miller, fought a gun battle with two laundry truck bandits.

A number of laundry drivers had been robbed late in 1930, and teams of detectives had been assigned to trail the trucks. Detective Sergeants Heckman and Miller saw a laundry truck parked in the 3500 block of North Pennsylvania Street on January 3, 1931. Two suspects approached, and as the officers started toward them, a gun battle started. Sergeant Heckman was struck in the forehead and fell to the sidewalk. He died on scene. Miller opened fire on the man who shot Heckman, but the slayer fled, apparently unharmed.

A second suspect, Floyd Board was seized by Miller. Board later pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. The shooter, later identified by Board as Richard Perkins, alias Cobb, was the subject of a wide manhunt. He was captured in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 29, 1931. Perkins was convicted of murder at trial on March 20, 1932, and was sentenced to death. After several stays of execution, Perkins was electrocuted at the Indiana State Prison on October 1, 1934.

Sergeant Heckman was appointed to the Police Department on February 20, 1929. Prior to his appointment, he was a professional golf player, having served as assistant professional at the South Grove course. Heckman was a patrolman until September 1, 1930, when he was transferred to detectives. On December 12, 1930, Heckman was promoted to detective sergeant.

The funeral procession for Sergeant Heckman was nearly three blocks long and was led by a police motor cycle escort. Approximately 500 friends and acquaintances assembled at the Riverside Park M.E. Church to pay their last respects. Burial was at Crown Hill Cemetery.

Sergeant Heckman was survived by his wife, 2 sons (age 6 and 1-1/2) and a 3-year old daughter.

Sergeant Lester Jones was killed on February 7, 1933, when he interrupted a hold-up at the People's Motor Coach Company at 2200 N. Yandes Street. Sergeant Jones was struck down by machine gun fire as he entered the door. Later, five members of the "Foggy" Dean gang, including the gunman Willie Mason, were arrested and given life sentences in the Indiana State Prison.

Detective Sergeant Orville Quinnette, 33, was fatally shot in a north side apartment ambush on December 7, 1935. Quinnette and his partner, Russell Chatham, had been sent to the Hazel Dell apartments, northeast corner of 12th Street and Park Avenue, on a tip that the man believed to have killed an Anderson police officer was living there.

Unable to gain admittance to the apartment after repeated knocking at the door, the detectives located the custodian and asked him to let them in. As they returned to the apartment, the door was swung open from the inside. Taken by surprise, the detectives were unable to draw their weapons before two men on the inside ambushed them and ordered them inside. A gun battle followed. Quinnette was shot several times, his partner once. Both suspects also were injured.

The wounded gunmen fled the apartment, halting a passing automobile, and ordering the driver out. Police spread a dragnet in one of the most intense manhunts since the days of John Dillinger's gangs. The suspects were captured near Milroy, at the home of Sylva Headlee, a paroled convict who was later returned to the State Prison as a parole violator.

After the gunmen escaped, Quinnette made his way to a home at 1140 Park Avenue where he telephoned for help. When the first squad arrived, Quinnette staggered across the street, climbed into the car, and was taken to City Hospital. Chatham, less severely injured with only a grazing wound, returned to the crime scene.

Sergeant Quinnette had been wounded five times: twice in the abdomen, once in the arm, once in the leg, and once in the hand. Although his wounds were considered serious, they initially were not thought to be critical; however, he developed pnuemonia. He died on December 18.

After the capture of Pierce and Joseph, Pierce confessed to the prosecutor that he had fired the shots that caused Quinnette's death. He also was identified as the shooter by Quinnette himself when Pierce was taken to the side of Quinnette's hospital bed for identification a few days prior to Quinnette's death. Trial was set January 6 before Judge Frank P. Baker.

Although Pierce and Joseph had a confirmed alibi for the time of the murder of the Anderson policeman, they were found to be escaped convicts, who made a break October 4, 1934, from the Indiana State Prison farm. They had been serving ten-year prison sentences on charges of robbery. During the time between their escape and the shooting of Sergeant Quinnette, they are believed to have staged several other armed robberies.

Quinnette was born in Putnam County September 11, 1902. He was appointed to the police department July 28, 1930, prior to which he had been a grocer. He was promoted to the rank of detective sergeant January 2, 1934.

Funeral services were held in the Olive Branch Christian Church. As the cortege passed police headquarters, Mayor John W. Kern and 150 uniformed police officers stood at attention. Burial was in Washington Park cemetery.

Quinnette was survived by his widow; his mother, Mrs. George Quinnette; two brothers, Freeman and Everett; and a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Tutterow.

Sergeant Richard Rivers went to the home of Dr. Emmet Rose at 2153 S. Barth Avenue on April 27, 1936, in response to a report that a man at that address had suffered a gunshot wound. Dr. Emmet Rose was treating the wounded man, and the call for help was made by Dr. Rose's wife, Edna. Waiting outside the house for the wounded companion were three armed bandits, members of the infamous Al Brady gang, wanted for robberies in four states. Sergeant Rivers was gunned down by one of bandits, James Dalhover, and died almost instantly in a hail of machine gun bullets. The gang fled, including the wounded man in the house, Charles Giesking, who was soon caught. The other members of the gang were caught in Chicago and were returned to Indianapolis where they were jailed in Greenfield, Indiana, in 1936. All three easily escaped the insecure jail and continued their crime spree.

In May 1937, the gang killed Indiana State Trooper Paul Minneman after robbing the Goodland State Bank. Finally, in October of 1937, the three -- Al Brady, Clarence Shaffer, and James Dalhover -- were cornered in Bangor, Maine, by FBI agents. Brady and Shaffer were killed in the ensuing gun battle. Dalhover was captured and was executed in the electric chair on November 17, 1938, at the Michigan City Prison.

Motorcycle Patrolman Alvie C. Emmelman, 40, was thrown from his motorcycle after hitting a chuckhole near the Belt Railroad at Kentucky Avenue and Morris Street on Friday,May 27, 1938. Suffering from a fractured skull, he was taken to City Hospital where he died from his injuries on the 29th.

A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Patrolman Emmelman had been a member of the police force since February 3, 1931. Funeral services were held at his home on Pleasant Street. He was survived by his wife, Ellen; two daughters, Mary and Dorothy; and three sons, Alvie C., Jr., Raymond, and Edward.

Injuries suffered by Officer Harry A. Bolin, 54, early August 16, 1940, when he was knocked from an inter-urban frieght train caused his death in the City Hospital. The accident occurred beneath a railroad elevation at Kentucky Avenue and Missouri Street.

Bolin apparently "hopped" a ride on the slow moving inter-urban and was brushed off by a danger sign protruding from a steel support beneath the elevation. He was found lying in the street by the driver of a taxicab that was passing by. Bolin's chest was crushed and his head injured. He was unconscious when found.

Bolin was widely known as a singer and had appeared at church and lodge assemblies in the city. He had been a member of the police department 11 years.

Born in Zanesville, Ohio, Bolin came to Indianapolis in 1910 while employed by a telephone company. He was assigned to the electrical division of the police and fire alarm system when he first became a member of the department.

Bolin was survived by his wife, a son, and a daughter.

Motorcycle Policeman James J. Reilly, 35 years old, was injured fatally during the late afternoon of Thursday, January 29, 1942, when the motorcycle he was riding collided with two automobiles in the 3600 block on West Washington Street. The accident occurred as Reilly, riding west on Washington, attempted to pass a car driven in the same direction. The driver of the car began to make a left turn onto Doerre Avenue just as Reilly began to pass. The motorcycle hooked onto the rear bumper of the car, and the impact threw Reilly and the motorcycle into the path of an eastbound car. Patrolman Reilly died almost instantly. A witness to the accident told police that he thought Reilly was pursuing a speeder.

Reilly was employed by the city park department and served with the police department in directing school patrol details during the winter. During the summer months he patrolled Indianapolis parks. He was appointed April 12, 1935.

Reilly was survived by his mother, three brothers, and two sisters. His brother, Dennis, was also a member of the Indianapolis Police Department. Policeman Reilly is buried in Holy Cross cemetery.

On October 9, 1942, while pursuing a motorist, Motorcycle Policeman Byron D. Todd, 33, was killed when his cycle skidded, hurling him to the pavement in the 2800 block on Brookside. Witnesses said that Todd, following a driver who had failed to stop at a preferential street, lost control of the motorcycle when it struck an unused streetcar rail, skidding 75 feed. He suffered a skull fracture and died a short time later at City Hospital.

Born in Indianapolis and a graduate of Shortridge High School, Patrolman Todd attended Butler University for two years. He became a member of the police department June 11, 1937, as a patrolman in the uniform division. In March 1939, he was made a motorcycle patrolman.

Officer Todd was survived by his wife and an 8-year old son. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery.

Officer J.W. Vaughan served with the 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He had been an officer of the 101st Airborne since its inception in August 1942. Major Vaughan was among the many from his division who were mis-dropped into the darkness of the Normandy terrain during the early morning operations of D-Day on June 6, 1944. He was eventually able to band together with others from his unit. The objective of Major Vaughan's unit was to secure four roads leading to Utah Beach. Approximately one mile from Ste. Mere Eglise, they intercepted an enemy column that was transporting supplies via horse drawn wagons. Major Vaughan, who was the S-4 officer, was commanded to secure the wagons. In the darkness, with his .45 drawn, Vaughan walked to the back of the train. A burst of fire erupted, and Vaughan was killed.

Major Vaughan was the highest ranking officer of the 502nd PIR to lose his life during the invasion on June 6 and was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart. He is buried in the Normandy American Cemetery in St. Laurent-sur-Mer, France. Vaughan was born in Campbellsburg, Kentucky on February 6, 1911, and was a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis. He had been appointed to the Indianapolis Police Department on December 1, 1936. He was survived by his wife, a five-year old daughter, and an eighteen-month old son.

Officer Karl Kornblum was killed on August 18, 1944, while serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. A recipient of the Purple Heart, he was a private in the 358th Infantry Regiment, 90th Infantry Division. His body is buried at Brittany American Cemetery in St. James, France. A native of Muncie, Indiana, Officer Kornblum was born in the spring of 1911. He was appointed to the Indianapolis Police Department on January 11, 1938, and was detailed from the department to the armed services on December 27, 1943.

Officer Kornblum was survived by his wife, father, sister, and brother. He was a graduate of Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis

Patrolman Marshall R. Foster, 28, an emergency squad patrolman, was fatally injured on the night of July 4, 1947, when he was struck by a car as he was directing traffic during an apartment house fire at Michigan and Alabama Streets.

The driver of the car was William E. Keller, 22, of Albany, who witnesses said passed a truck making a left turn into Michigan Street from Alabama Street. Witnesses also said Keller was going at a high speed when he struck Foster who was standing a few feet north of the intersection. Keller was held on a vagrancy charge. He admitted passing the truck, but said he did not see the officer.

Fellow policemen immediately applied the police inhalator until a City doctor arrived. Use of the inhalator was continued until arrival at the hospital where Foster died about 15 minutes later.

Born in Greencastle, Indiana, and graduated from high school in 1937, Foster was a veteran of four years' Army Service. He served most of the time with an engineer combat battalion in New Guinea. Foster was appointed to the Police Department in April 1947. He requested duty on the emergency squad and had been at that post for just two weeks prior to his death.

A contingent of officers from the department accompanied Foster's body to Greencastle for burial. Patrolman Foster was survived by his wife, Nobia.

Officer Robert J. Baker a motorcycle officer, had a running feud with 19-year-old Herbert Bobb who was terrorizing a south side neighborhood by driving his "hot rod" at high speed. On the evening of October 2, 1948, Bobb was waiting for Officer Baker as Baker was riding his cycle north on Shelby Street. Bobb pulled his car out onto Shelby from Calhoun Street, directly in front of Baker's motorcycle. Baker struck Bobb's car broadside and was thrown from his cycle. He landed on his head and died within a few minutes. Bobb fled the scene, but was apprehended six days later and confessed that he was the one involved. He was sentenced to three years in prison for manslaughter.

Officer Clarence G. Snorden, 29, was killed on the night of June 26, 1951, after he and his partner, Officer Thomas H. Williams, 39, were sent to the home of John Hoard as a result of Hoard telephoning police headquarters to report that "I just killed a man." As Hoard waited for officers to arrive, he took a shotgun and stood behind a window overlooking the street and turned out the lights in the front room of the house.

When Snorden and Williams arrived at the house at 227 West 14th Street, they parked their car in the rear. As Snorden walked around to the front, Hoard fired one shot from a front window at a distance of 6 feet. Snorden fell, fatally wounded. Williams ran to the front, and Hoard, who had reloaded, fired again, striking Williams. Williams survived, but lost his right eye as a result of his injuries.

Sgt. Clinton Auter, Sgt. James Gaughan, and Sergeant Bethel Gaither reached the home a moment after Snorden and Williams were shot. Hoard, still standing by the front window fired one shot at them when they climbed from their car. The officers returned fire, killing Hoard with a shotgun blast to the chest.

As the firing stopped, officers saw a man leap from the roof of the Hoard home. They radioed for more police. Sixty policmen with riot guns, tear gas equipment, and machine guns were ordered into the area. A crowd estimated at 5000 gathered in the neighborhood, blocking traffic for six blocks. The fleeing man soon surrendered, and was identified as Mrs. Hoard's brother who had been hiding upstairs during the shooting. He was held so he could make a statement, but was not believed to have been involved in the shooting.

Hoard's wife, Mary, later told police Hoard had been drinking heavily and that they had been arguing throughout the evening. She also reported her husband said, "I'm going to call some policemen so they'll kill me."

At the 3 p.m. roll call in police headquarters on June 27, Captain John E. Ambul warned patrolmen to use extreme caution on assignments involving possible gunplay. "Snorden and Williams were here yesterday at this same roll call," he said. "Snorden probably was the biggest man in this room. Today he's dead."

Born in Keysburg, Kentucky, Snorden was graduated from Crispus Attucks High School. He served in Africa and Italy during World War II and was discharged as a staff sergeant in 1945. He had joined the police force in June 1948, one month after his marriage.

Officer Snorden was interred under heavy skies at Crown Hill Cemetery, while more than 60 police officers paid last respects along with more than 100 relatives and other friends. The funeral procession was nearly a half mile long and passed by police headquarters on South Alabama Street where hundreds of city policemen, state troopers, deputy sheriffs, constables, railroad detectives, and bystanders came to attention and saluted as the hearse passed. The Reverend Andrew J. Brown, pastor of the Greater Street John Baptist Church, officiated at Snorden's funeral.

Officer Snorden was survived by his wife and a 22-month-old son. His wife was expecting their second child at the time of Snorden's death.

On September 8, 1951, Detective Sergeant James T. Gaughan, 37, was killed in an early morning collision between the police car in which he and his partner, Detective Sergeant Bethel E. Gaither, were riding and another car that was darting through the intersection at North and Alabama Streets. Both detectives were thrown to the pavement by the impact. Gaughan, whose skull was fractured, died at the scene. Gaither survived the crash.

Gaughan and Gaither were travelling north to investigate a disturbance in the 800 block of Alabama Street when a car darted east through the intersection. The driver of the other car was not hurt. He was held under $5,000 bond on charges of reckless homicide, vagrancy, and failure to stop at a preferential street.

The accident brought strong criticism of the North and Alabama Streets intersection from police who reported "hardly a day goes by without an accident there."

Gaughan had been on the police force nine years at the time of his death. He was a Cathedral High School graduate and played football fullback. He was survived by his wife, an 11-year-old son, and 7-year old daughter. Gaughan, a homicide investigator, was scheduled to leave on vacation after his shift on September 8. He and his family were planning a trip to New York City.

Earlier in the summer of 1951, Gaughan and Gaither responded to the scene of the death of Officer Clarence Snorden.

On July 23, 1952, Officer John L. Sullivan interrupted a man who had broken into the officer's home at 4715 English Avenue and was attacking his wife, Mary Sullivan. Sullivan was returning home from work and was still in uniform. He shouted for the intruder to come out or he'd go in after him. The attacker answered by firing a shot through a door. The bullet struck the patrol officer near his police badge, just above the heart. Although wounded, Sullivan pulled his gun and began firing. The attacker fled. The wounded officer staggered to his telephone and called police headquarters. Within minutes, officers flooded the area. Officer Sullivan was rushed to General Hospital where he died about 45 minutes after he had been shot. A wounded Emmet Johns was captured and later recovered from his wounds. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Auxiliary Officer Arthur Reifeis,53, was critically injured while directing traffic near Butler Fieldhouse on February 27, 1953. Officer Reifeis was struck by a car at the intersection of 46th and Meridian Streets, following the afternoon games in the basketball sectional tournament. He suffered a broken left leg, concussion, and skull fracture. The car was driven by Rae C. Hodgin, 65, who was charged with reckless driving and disobeying an officer's signal.

Officer Reifeis was transported to General Hospital where he died on Monday, March 9, 1953.

Officer Reifeis worked as a voluntary auxiliary officer for seven years. He never received renumeration and devoted four or five nights every week to the work. In this capacity, he was a familiar figure at Garfied Park, particularly during the summer concert series.

A life resident of Indianapolis, Officer Reifeis was the son of German immigrants. For 35 years he had been employed at the Link-Belt Co. and was a member of the company's bowling league.

Officer Reifeis was survived by his wife, Gladys; four sons, Arthur, Vernon, Joseph, and Richard; and a daughter, Janice. He is buried in Washington Park Cemetery (East) in Indianapolis.

Sergeant Ray Whobrey was fatally wounded by John Calvin Silcox, 26, who fired a sawed-of shotgun directly into Sgt. Whobrey's body at a distance of 2 feet. The incident occurred at approximately 11 o'clock on the night of April 23, 1953, as Sgt. Whobrey and Officers Hartwell Jarvis and Ed Marcum patrolled near Ray and Missouri Streets. A drug store, the Weinbrecht pharmacy, 21st and Harding, had been held up earlier. The officers saw a green, 1948 Ford sedan turn west onto Ray from Church without making a hand signal. They recognized Silcox, paroled from prison February 23.

The officers forced the car to the curb in front of 359 W. Ray, and Sgt. Whobrey got out and went around to the right side of the Ford. The door opened, and Silcox fired with a 12-guage shotgun. Officers Jarvis and Marcum jumped out of the squad car. The driver of the Ford, John Stack, 28, jumped out and ran toward Officer Marcum. Marcum fired once and Stack went down with a shot in the chest. Silcox ran north on Missouri with Officer Jarvis in pursuit.

As the officer fired, Silcox dropped his shotgun. Silcox circled about a car, apparently trying to get back to the shotgun, and Jarvis fired again. In all, the police reported, Silcox stumbled three times before he fell to the ground 100 feet from where Sgt. Whobrey lay. Silcox had been shot through the heart and was identified at the morgue as the suspect who had held up the Weinbrecht drugstore.

Sergeant Whobrey was 38 when he was killed. He was survived by his widow and two daughters, aged 7 and 13. The Indianapolis News reported that Whobrey's brother Lloyd, a patrol officer with the Indianapolis Police Department, was at Whobrey's bedside when he died. The News further reported that Whobrey spoke his last words to Lloyd, comforting his brother with, "Don't take it so hard. Everything will be all right.

Patrolman Edward H. Berry, 41, died of head injuries in General Hospital at 3:15 a.m. on Thursday, February 4, 1954, victim of a crash on Tuesday the 2nd at 16th and Harding Streets, just east of Victory Field. The crash occurred as Patrolman Berry chased a speeder. During the chase, Patrolman Berry's motorcycle struck another car. The impact threw him over the car's hood and 95' along the street.

The speeder Patrolman Berry was chasing got away. The car into which Berry's motorcycle crashed was driven by George P. Miller, 60. A witness said Miller pulled on 16th from Harding. The witness added that the patrolman was going too fast for Miller to avoid him. Miller said he had the green light and that he did not hear the siren or see Berry until the crash.

Mr. Miller was charged with failure to give an emergency vehicle the right of way. The charges were dropped in court on February 9 as Prosecutor Frank Fairchild called a grand jury to investigate the accident. The findings of the grand jury are not known.

Services for Patrolman Berry were held at an Irvington Mortuary. A police honor guard was stationed at the casket, and an American Legion color guard also attended. The funeral procession passed police headquarters. Former motorcycle police who worked with Patrolman Berry were the pallbearers.

Patrolman Berry was appointed to the department on April 16, 1947, after serving in the Army. He was survived by his wife, Lillian; a son, Charles 14; and a daughter, Diane, 12.

Inspector Albert A. Kelly, the highest ranking IPD officer to died in the line of duty, was killed on December 6, 1956, when he went to the York Hotel at 200 N. Illinois with Sergeant Edward Clark and Officer William G. Beaumont to arrest James B. Baker for the shooting of a store clerk in a robbery a short time earlier. When the officers entered the room, Baker shot Inspector Kelly and Officer Beaumont. Although badly wounded, Officer Beaumont was able to shoot and kill Baker. The Inspector died at General Hospital a short time later.

MCSD Deputy Edward G. Byrne, #101, died as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted at the scene of a business burglary.

Date of Birth: November 12, 1937
Date of Appointment: July 18, 1960
Died: April 16, 1961

Patrolman Donald H. Kilbourne, 30, was injured critically about 7:40 pm on Tuesday, November 10, 1964, when his motorcycle struck a car at 18th and Meridian streets after skidding 45 feet. Patrolman Kilbourne was admitted to Marion County General Hospital with head and internal injuries. He died on Thursday, November 12.

Patrolman Kilbourne was traveling north on Meridian Street when the collision occurred. The red lights on his motorcycle were flashing, and it is believed that he was preparing to stop a speeding motorist. The driver of the car struck by Kilbourne's motorcycle told police that he had stopped for the traffic signal at the intersection before proceeding. Seconds before the collision, the driver saw the cycle and tried to stop. The motorcycle struck the car's driver side door. No charges were filed.

A funeral procession bearing the body of Patrolman Kilbourne was led by a squadron of motorcycle police as it passed by police headquarters. A motorcycle with a black wreath across its windshield and a pair of boots facing backwards stood in the entrance to headquarters. Forty uniformed police officers stood on the west side of Alabama Street, and 60 plainclothes officers stood on the east side of the street.

Patrolman Kilbourne was survived by his wife and three small sons, 1, 4, and 7 years old. He was buried in Washington Park Cemetery.

On October 12, 1965, Patrolman Thomas R. Graham, 38, was shot and killed by Nathaniel Harris, a burglary suspect whom Graham was transporting to police headquarters from a northside business where Harris had been arrested. At 6:51 p.m. Graham marked out of service at police headquarters at 50 North Alabama Street. As Graham escorted Harris to the prisoners' elevator in the basement of headquarters, a struggle ensued and Harris gained control of the patrolman's revolver. Harris shot and fatally wounded Graham.

Patrolman Graham was found 5 feet from the elevator at about 7:10 pm by officers who were going to the police garage in the basement. His hat was found in the elevator cage. His badge, torn from his uniform, was found in the hallway. Graham's revolver was found about 5 feet from him; one bullet had been fired. A spent bullet was found about 25 feet away.

Graham was taken to General Hospital where he died at about 9:40 p.m. Doctors said the bullet struck him in the right temple and came out the other side of his head.

Harris fled up a ramp leading from the police garage after the shooting. Dozens of police cars ringed the downtown area and blocked off the entrances at police headquarters and the City-County Building. All available policemen, including traffic policemen and the mobile reserve units, were pressed into the search. The Marion County Sheriff's Department supplied 100 deputies. Roadblocks were set up by Indianapolis, Lawrence, and state police and sheriff's deputies at all main roads leading from the city. Weir Cook Municipal Airport and Union Station also were watched.

Harris eluded authorities for two days. He was captured on October 14 in a near northside house after police received a tip identifying his location. Harris was arrested on a warrant charging him with murder.

Patrolman Graham was a life-long resident of Indianapolis. He served in the United States Navy aboard an LST during World War II. He was the recipient of the Victory Medal, the American Area Campaign Medal, the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars and the Philippine Liberation Medal with two Bronze Stars. Graham joined the Police Department on September 20, 1956. During his service with the Department, he received several commendations. He was described by co-workers as quiet and hard-working -- "the best."

Patrolman Graham was buried at New Crown Cemetery. His funeral cortege was escorted by motorcycle policemen who were graduates in the same police training program with Graham and who joined the force when he did. All personnel at police headquarters lined both sides of Alabama Street in a final tribute to Graham as the procession passed.

Graham was survived by his wife, Donna.

MCSD Lieutenant Jimmie Van Wingate, 27, was shot during an attempted hold-up at Preston's Super Market, 7021 North Keystone Avenue on Saturday, June 13, 1970, shortly after 10:00 pm.

Earlier in the evening, three masked bandits had entered the store from the rear as the assistant manager was closing for the night. One of the bandits pointed a pistol at the manager and forced him to open the safe. The bandits then locked him in a washroom.

Wingate and fellow deputy, Emery Summers, arrived at the grocery store shortly after a burglar alarm was touched off when the bandits opened a cash drawer.

The deputies walked to the front of the store, tapped on the door and took out their pistols. Receiving no response, they checked the building's other entrances, and then returned to the front door.

In response to the deputies' knock at the door, the bandits ordered the manager out of the washroom and told him to answer the door. As he did so, the manager bolted through the door and ran outside, saying something about a man and guns. One of the suspects, Charles W. Cotton, followed the manager and immediately began firing a weapon. The deputies returned fire.

Both Summers and Wingate, as well as the suspect Cotton, were hit. Cotton died at the scene. Summers and Wingate were taken to General Hospital, both having been wounded in the abdomen. Wingate died at 11:00 am on Sunday, June 14. Summers survived his injuries.

The other two hold-up men escaped the scene on foot. A fourth man was believed to have been in the neighborhood, waiting to pick them up in a black and yellow Rambler. An intensive manhunt was ordered, with all deputies working 12-hour shifts and officers of other local, state, and federal agencies involved. Two arrests were made; however the convictions were reversed on appeal.

Lt. Wingate was a member of the MCSD Reserve Division. He had been appointed on October 21, 1968, and his badge number was 108. Lt. Wingate attended Indiana University. He had been employed as a programmer by the American United Life Insurance Company for four years.

Wingate was survived by his wife, Elaine. Services were held at East 38th Street Christian Church, with nearly 500 people in attendance. More than 75 Marion County Sheriff's patrol cars led the funeral procession to the Washington Park East Cemetery for burial.

Officer John Thomas Pettitt, Sr., was killed on November 6, 1970, in the Hua Nghia Province of South Vietnam while serving in the U.S. Army as a tank commander with the 25th Armored Tank Division. He had been in Vietnam since January.

Officer Pettitt was born on September 2, 1943. A 1962 graduate of Ben Davis High School, Pettitt had been employed as a draftsman at Detroit Diesel-Allison Division of General Motors Corporation prior to being sworn in as a member of the Indianapolis Police Department on June 23, 1969.

On June 26, 1969, Pettitt was inducted to the Armed Services by the Indiana Selective Service and was placed on military leave of absence from IPD.

Pettitt was survived by a son, John T. Pettitt Jr., a daughter, Kelly J. Pettitt, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Pettitt. He is honored on Panel 6W, Row 43 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

MCSD Deputy Floyd T. Settles, #141, died as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted at the scene of a bank robbery.

Date of Birth: September 5, 1946
Date of Appointment: June 1, 1969
Died: February 24, 1972

MCSD Lieutenant Robert C. Atwell, Badge # 19, died as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted at the scene of a domestic disturbance.

Date of Birth: November 12, 1933
Date of Appointment: January 1, 1955
Died: November 2, 1972

Officer Robert E. Schachte was shot and killed after he stopped a car near the 2300 block of North College Avenue on October 22, 1974. The killer, Ricky Lee Vaughn, escaped and was not captured for nearly a year. He was arrested in Detroit and later was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Officer Ronald H. Manley was shot and killed when he responded to a hold-up alarm at a drug store at 1800 N. Illinois Street on December 12, 1974. Officer Manley shot and killed one gunman by the name of Robert A. Woods and then was murdered by Norman H. Woodford. Woodford was captured the next day and was later tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison.

Officer Warren E. Greene, 53, was shot and killed on Saturday, December 20, 1975, when he and rookie officer, Ronald McClain, were dispatched to a family argument at 324 W. 26th Street at 4:12 pm.

During the argument, Clifford Howard attacked his uncle, John G. Howard, who drew a .38-caliber revolver and shot him. When the police officers responded to the two story brick apartment, they found Clifford Howard in a pool of blood. Officer Greene directed McClain to return to the radio car and call for an ambulance while he administered first aid.

As Greene tried to locate Clifford Howard's pulse, John Howard emerged from a hiding place. At the same time, Officer Charles Kaiser arrived on the scene. As he neared the room, he heard Greene speaking to John Howard, telling him to put the gun down. Before Kaiser could enter the room, he heard shots and saw Greene fall.

Kaiser drew his gun and fired six times, knocking John Howard down. Kaiser ducked back out of the building to reload his weapon just as Officer Ernest W. Todd arrived. With Todd covering him, Kaiser re-entered the building to try to give Greene first aid. Todd, with his weapon drawn, went to the fallen John Howard who still clutched his weapon. As Todd reached for the gun, Howard pointed it at him. Todd fired one round, striking Howard in the head.

Officer Greene was transported to Wishard Memorial Hospital where he died of two gunshot wounds in the upper chest. Both Clifford and John Howard also were slain. Police later determined the pair had been arguing over a $30 loan.

Officer Greene was a native of New Rochelle, New York, and was born on January 24, 1922. He moved to Indianapolis in 1955 and became a member of the Police Department on September 20, 1956. While in New York Greene had served 10 years on the New York City Police Department. At home, Greene's hobbies included listening to and taping music, gardening, and playing the organ.

Officer Greene was survived by his widow, Mrs. Johnnie Ruth Greene, and nine sons and daughters ranging in age from 36 to 14.

Services were held in First Samuel Baptist Church, with entombment in Washington Park North Cemetery on Christmas Eve 1975.

During the evening hours of Tuesday, March 16, 1976, Narcotics Detective James M. Compton, Jr., 29 was shot and fatally wounded in an ambush when he and a team of other detectives attempted to serve a warrant on three men barricaded in a westside residence at 2145 Gent Avenue.

Narcotics detectives had received several complaints from administrators of Crispus Attucks High school concerning Del Anthony Boatright, alleging that Boatright was selling marijuana to students. Detective Compton, who had been assigned to narcotics for only six weeks, was given the case with a team of three other detectives. Through an informant, the detectives verified that Boatright was selling marijuana to students, and with a search warrant, they approached Boatright's home at about 10pm.

Detective Compton knocked on the front door of the home, identified himself as a policeman, and announced he had the warrant. The answer was a blast of gun fire through the screen door. Struck in the head and chest, Compton fell back and crawled across to the middle of the front yard. While one narcotics detective gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Detective Compton, two others returned fire, striking Boatright.

Detective Compton and Del Boatright were transported to Wishard Hospital. Boatright died at 11 pm; Detective Compton died about an hour later.

Detective Compton was born in Indianapolis and attended Shortridge High School. A Navy veteran of the Vietnam War, he received the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in action in the summer of 1967. Compton was appointed to the police department February 1, 1976. He formerly was a policeman for two years in Kansas.

Virtually thousands of police officers from around the mid-west attended the services for Detective Compton. He was buried in New Crown Cemetery and was survived by his wife; two daughters, Madonna, 11, and Genine,6; and a son, James M. Compton, III, 5.

Sergeant Ernest M. Lacy, 45, was killed in a one-car automobile accident in the 2500 block of North Country Club Road on May 22, 1977. His police vehicle ran off the road and struck a concrete bridge abutment.

Sergeant Lacy was assigned to the Charles Sector following the establishment of team policing on May 15. A member of the department for 16 years, he previously served as a relief sergeant and as a vice squad detective. He was a member of the police color guard.

A native of Brookville, Indiana, Lacy was a Korean War Navy veteran. He was survived by his wife, Judy; a son, Roy; and a daughter, Donna. He was buried in Maple Grove Cemetery at Brookville.

Officer Nathan Lincks, 42, was killed in a vehicle crash at about 5:20 pm on Tuesday, October 25, 1977. Lincks, a veteran of almost 17 years on the police force, was en route to the Thatcher Community Center, 4649 West Vermont Street, to help direct a youth recreation program of the Police Athletic League (PAL) Club, to which he had been assigned for six years.

The crash happened in front of the LaRue Carter Hospital parking lot on West 10th Street and was triggered by a dark green or blue car which sped suddenly from the parking lot into the path of a westbound Metro bus. Lincks, who was eastbound on 10th Street, stopped his car, a 1972 Ford LTD, when he saw the bus swerve into his lane after the bus driver applied the brakes. The bus skidded on the rain-slicked street, striking Lincks' car head on.

Lincks was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in his car, Darvin King, a young Army veteran believed to have been a pedestrian to whom Lincks gave a lift on a rainy day, died at nearby Wishard Hospital about one hour after the crash. Teresa Smith witnessed the accident while driving and stopped her car. She radioed for help on Lincks' walkie talkie and helped give first aid to King. Twenty police cars arrived at the scene in response to the call.

Officer Lincks, a native of London, Kentucky, joined the police force in February 1961. He was survived by his wife and two sons. He is buried in Floral Park Cemetery West in Indianapolis.

Patrolman Gerald F. (Jerry) Griffin, 29, was killed on Tuesday, November 6, 1979, when an enraged man fired several shots at policemen responding to a domestic disturbance call at 4702 N. 36th Street in Eagledale shortly before 8:00 pm.

Officer Griffin was the first policeman to arrive at the scene. Investigators said he entered a screened carport at the residence and was confronted by Richard Moore who pointed a shotgun at him. Griffin was heard to say, "You don't want to do that." Moore answered with a blast that fatally wounded Griffin. Moore continued on a shooting spree that also injured Lt. Cicero C. Mukes and Patrolman Roy Potter.

Dozens of officers responded to the scene. As police surrounded the home, Detective Robert S. Patterson pulled a police car in front of the house to shield the fallen Mukes. Sergeant Thomas Robbins brought his squad car up, pulled Mukes into the car, and then drove the car between Potter and the house and pulled Potter inside. He drove both of them to Wishard Hospital where they later recovered from their injuries. Officer Amos E. Atwood pulled Officer Griffin away from the carport, and several other officers took his body to the street.

Moore barricaded himself inside the home for approximately 1-1/2 hours. SWAT teams from IPD and the Indiana State Police moved in on the home with tear gas and high-powered weapons. A hostage negotiator tried to establish communication. Eventually, after several tear gas canisters were fired into the home, Moore surrendered.

When police entered the home, they found that Moore had slain two hostages. The victims were identified as Ronda Caldwell Moore, Moore's former wife; and her father, John Caldwell Sr. Caldwell's wife, Burdine, was also found wounded; she was transported to Methodist Hospital. Later investigation found that the home was the residence of John and Burdine and that their daughter, Ronda, had recently come to live with them after a divorce from Moore.

Although Moore was known by co-workers to be a friendly, outgoing man who did not seem prone to violence, he admitted to having a heavy drinking problem. He is believed to have gone deliberately to the Caldwell home while armed with a loaded automatic shotgun and a hunting rifle. Moore was charged with three counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder, and three counts of armed confinement.

Officer Griffin was killed four days before his 30th birthday and three days before he was to go on vacation. A lifelong resident of Indianapolis, Officer Griffin had worked for the Police Department for about 7 1/2 years before he was killed. Officer Griffin as known as a quiet, easygoing man who always was willing to help. A fellow officer remarked, "You don't find them any better. He was a good cop and a fine man." Prior to his service with IPD, Officer Griffin served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War. He was awarded the Purple Heart.

Officer Griffin was married to his wife, Judith, for about nine years. He was the father of three girls - Kathleen, 7; Kelly, 4; and Kimberly, 19 months.

Hundreds of other law enforcement officers paid tribute to Officer Griffin. About 700 people crowded into Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church for the one-hour Mass. An estimated 200 more people, many of whom were police officers from across the state and out of state, stood outside in the cold drizzle.

After the Mass, the funeral cortege of almost 300 cars, half of which were police cars with red lights flashing, headed downtown in a procession that stretched 24 blocks long. Uniformed police not in the procession lined the curb on Alabama Street. They were ordered to attention and snapped to a salute as the gray hearse paused in front of police headquarters. The entourage then passed the Marion County Sheriff's Headquarters where 100 sheriff deputies waited in similar fashion. The hearse then proceeded to Calvary Cemetery where Officer Griffin was buried.

Officer Griffin's badge, number 2602, was permanently retired from service.

Detective Sergeant Jack R. Ohrberg, 44, was killed early Thursday, December 11, 1980, as he tried to serve high risk warrants on several gang members at 3544 North Oxford Street.

Ohrberg, a homicide investigator, was following up on the investigation into the August 4 robbery and slaying of a Brink's Guard at the K-Mart store at 4150 N. Keystone Avenue. Re-examining leads on the Brink's case, Ohrberg and his partner, William H. Burgess, began to develop information linking it with a bank robbery of the American Fletcher National Bank branch at 2955 Northwestern Avenue on February 6. The detectives compared notes with the FBI and concluded they had enough information to make arrests on the bank robbery.

A probable cause hearing on the bank robbery was held at about 4:00 pm on the prior day in Municipal Court 4 before Judge Roy Jones. Jones said Ohrberg was very concerned about the arrests and wanted to keep everything quite. He wanted to serve the warrants himself; he knew they were dangerous.

Thursday morning, an hour or so before the raids to serve the warrants, Ohrberg and the other policemen who were to participate in the arrests met in the homicide office. Three teams of four policemen simultaneously went to three locations. One team, led by Burgess, went to one accomplice's residence and arrested her without trouble. Lt. James Strode led the second team to the 3300 block of Meadows Court where they expected to find two of the subjects -- Earl and Gregory Resnover.

The apartment was empty. What the detectives hadn't expected was that the Resnovers would be with another subject, Tommie J. Smith, at a one-story brick duplex on Oxford Street.

Ohrberg went to the Oxford Street house with five other policemen. About 5:30 am, while some of the arrest team watched the back of the house, Ohrberg and Patrol Officer William J. Foreman, approached the front door. Ohrberg knocked loudly on the door several times, and when no answer was heard, he sent a patrol officer to a neighboring house to ask if the Smith residence was occupied.

When the neighbor said he thought someone was home, Ohrberg knocked again, pounding on the door as he announced that the police were there and the house was surrounded. When no sound was heard, Ohrberg shouted that he was going to kick the door down. He also spoke those words into his police radio transmitter, alerting the other police officers.

When he kicked the door, it only opened 8 to 10 inches, as if something was barring the way. As Ohrberg tried to force his way in, two shots rang out. Foreman dropped to the ground and in the dark heard Ohrberg shout, "Oh, no. I've been hit. Get help." One man -- believed to be Smith -- leaned out the door and raked the wounded detective with several blasts from an automatic military rifle.

The other officers at the scene returned fire. They then took cover as the assailant retreated into the house. Police called for assistance of the SWAT team.

Subjects in side the residence called out that they wanted to talk and that they had women inside and wanted them to be allowed out first. Police rejected these requests, insisting that all those inside surrender and that the weapons be thrown out. Shortly, several guns were tossed out the door; then the Resnovers exited, followed by two women.

Tommie L. Smith remained in the house. Shortly before 8:00 am, SWAT fired 12 tear gas canisters into the house, with one landing on the couch, setting it on fire. SWAT officers then stormed the house, finding Smith laying on the living room floor in a pool of blood, under a brown leather coat. Smith was removed from the house on a stretcher to an ambulance and taken to hospital.

In all, five subjects were arrested. Gregory Resnover was electrocuted on December 8, 1994. Tommie Smith was executed by lethal injection in July 1996.

Born at Brooklyn, New York, Sergeant Ohrberg lived in Indianapolis 38 years. He joined the police department in 1961.

A grandfather of one and father of four,Ohrberg was survived by his wife, Diana. Memorial services were held in Shirley Brothers Irving Hill Chapel. In keeping with Sergeant Ohrberg's stated wishes, there was no funeral procession past IPD headquarters.

MCSD Terry L. Baker, #564, died as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted at the scene of an armed robbery.

Date of Birth: September 9, 1952
Date of Appointment: May 8, 1976
Died: January 2, 1981

MCSD Deputy Gerald Morris, #323, died as a result of gunshot wounds inflicted at the scene of an armed robbery.

Date of Birth: February 9, 1952
Appointment Date: December 8, 1978
Died: January 2, 1981

Officer Paul A. Kortepeter, 39, was killed on January 19, 1983, when his patrol car collided head-on with a truck being operated at a high speed by two men who were suspected of robbing a westside restaurant. The fleeing truck was being chased by two state police troopers and a Marion County Sheriff's deputy. Hearing the broadcast of the chase, Officer Kortepeter drove north on Tibbs Avenue with the aim of intercepting the truck. When the truck entered a sharp curve in the 2300 block of Tibbs, it veered across the center line and collided with Kortepeter's car.

Officer Kortepeter was pronounced dead on arrival at Wishard Hospital shortly after the accident at 11:08 p.m. He had severe chest and head injuries.

The suspects, Richard Annes and Robert Ballard, were charged with robbery with a deadly weapon, reckless homicide, vehicle theft, and resisting and fleeing a police officer.

A 1961 graduate of Manual High School, Officer Kortepeter was appointed to the Police Department on September 22, 1969. He was described by his commander as a "real good, hard-working type of person." During his tenure with the Department, he received eight letters of commendation for his service.

Officer Kortepeter, who was divorced, was survived by a 13-year old son and a 10-year old daughter

Sergeant Dave L. Sandler, 48, suffered severe head injuries when his police motorcycle was hit by a car at about 8:20 pm on Wednesday, June 4, 1986. Sergeant Sandler was southbound in the 2700 block of Madison Avenue when a northbound car turned across his path. Witnesses agreed that the headlight on the motorcycle was not operating when the accident occurred, as darkness fell. A mechanical malfunction or burned-out bulb was suspected because the headlight was supposed to light automatically when the engine was started.

A passerby, Don Packwood, picked up the radio microphone from the wrecked motorcycle and called for help. Packwood, an Indiana University Safety Division policeman and instructor in CPR, helped perform life-saving measures. Sergeant Sandler was transported to Wishard Memorial Hospital where he died at about 11:00 pm.

Sergeant Sandler was a lifelong resident of Indianapolis and a 24-year veteran of the Police Department. He had served in the motorcycle unit for about three years. He was survived by his wife, Ethyel; two daughters; and six grandchildren.

On August 14, 1988, Officer Matt J. Faber was hit by a shotgun blast to the back as he attempted to arrest Fred Sanders at Sanders' home at 2968 North Arthington Boulevard after responding to the scene on an animal complaint. Officer Faber died on August 23, 1988. Fred Sanders recovered from shots fired by other officers on the scene, and received seven years in prison.

MCSD Lieutenant Thurman E. Sharp, #67, died as a result of gunshot wounds received while checking a building early Christmas morning in 1988.

Date of Birth: January 3, 1933
Date of Appointment: September 1, 1966
Died: December 25, 1988

Major Paul J. Ernst, #14, suffered a heart attack and died in a traffic accident while leading a police escort.

Date of Birth: August 6, 1936
Date of Appointment: April 1, 1965
Died: March 21, 1992

Officer Teresa Jean Hawkins, 28, died in a pre-dawn automobile accident on Tuesday, August 17, 1993, while driving to assist an ambulance crew with a patient at 38th Street and Emerson Avenue. As she drove on Emerson, with red and blue lights flashing, a 1978 Ford LTD driven by Elvis L. Lacy, ran a stop sign at Emerson and 36th Street. Lacy was moving in excess of the 30-mph speed limit. He had a blood-alcohol level of 0.191 percent, almost twice the legal standard for intoxication. The Ford struck the driver's door of Officer Hawkins' Chevrolet Caprice, pushing the squad car into a utility pole.

Lacy was charged with reckless homicide; operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, causing a death; and driving with a blood-alcohol content over the legal limit, causing a death.

All three charges were class C felonies, calling for a maximum sentence of 8 years. However, because all three charges were based on the same facts, only one sentence of 8 years could be imposed. Lacy pled guilty and received the maximum 8 years.

Officer Hawkins, a Tipton native, was the youngest of nine brothers and sisters. A 1983 graduate of Tipton High School and a 1987 graduate of Ball State University, Officer Hawkins' ambition to go into law enforcement began when she babysat for the three children of a Tipton County deputy sheriff.

Hundreds of police officers from Michigan, Kentucky, and throughout Indiana attended services for Officer Hawkins. Patrol Officer Anna Bies, a friend and co-worker, stood before the 900 mourners and gave an emotional and moving eulogy: "The words that come to mind to describe Teresa are exceptional, genuine, unselfish," said Officer Bies. Officer Hawkins is buried in St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Tipton.

Officer Hawkins had been an IPD officer for five years. She was the first Indiana policewoman to die in the line of duty.

On September 17th, 2001, Marion County Sheriff's Deputy Jason M. Baker, #232, was killed in the line of duty. Deputy Baker was enroute to a disturbance when his attention was diverted by a vehicle that he then attempted to investigate. The driver of the vehicle refused to stop, and Deputy Baker pursued. The chase reached the intersection of 32nd and Brouse where suspects exited the vehicle. It was at this time that Deputy Baker was fatally wounded.

By early the next day all suspects were located. Three were arrested and the fourth was found dead. On February 18, 2003, Michael Shannon pleaded guilty to killing Deputy Jason Baker. In return for pleading guilty Shannon did not face the death penalty, but was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Because he confessed to the killing he is not able to appeal. He also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder and other charges.

Deputy Baker was appointed as a Merit Deputy on June 1, 1999. He also worked as a Marion County Sheriff's Department Tele-Communicator in the Communications Division from 1995 through 1996 and as a Special Deputy from 1997 until his appointment as a Merit Officer.

On September 21st, 2001, Deputy Jason Matthew Baker was laid to rest in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. His MCSD radio and badge numbers were permanently retired by the department and not be used again.

Officer Timothy "Jake" Laird, badge number 2479, was killed on August 18, 2004, when officers responded to numerous 911 calls from neighbors reporting gunfire in the 2700 block of Dietz Street on the near southside of Indianapolis.

The first officer responding to the scene, Officer Tim Conley, radioed to dispatch that he was under fire. Having been struck in the abdomen and leg while still in his car, Officer Conley put the car in reverse and backed-up until he hit a fence post where he was rescued by Officers Mark Fagan and Ty VanWagner and Lt. Richard Proffitt.

Amid the gunfire, and uncertain that an ambulance could safely enter the area, IFD Lt. Robert Moore, Engineer Kenneth Calvin, and Firefighters Kevin Jones and John Vaughns, of Engine Company 15, Station 15, stepped into the dangerous scene so they could transport Officer Conley to the hospital on board their fire engine.

Driving into the 2800 block of Dietz Street at 2:01 am, Officers Laird and Kim Cissell also came under fire. As Officer Laird exited his police car, he was fatally wounded when a round hit him high in the chest, above his protective vest. Officer Cissell drove Officer Laird to Troy Avenue. From there, Officer Laird was transported to Wishard Hospital where he was pronounced dead moments after arriving.

The shooter, Kenneth C. Anderson, 33, continued to walk down an alley and through the parking lot of a local church onto Tindall Street, brandishing a rifle with a large ammunition clip. Near the corner of Tindall and Gimber streets, he came upon Officers Leon Essig, Andrew Troxell, and Peter Koe. Anderson took cover behind a Jeep Cherokee and fired several rounds at the three officers. Essig was hit in the arm; Troxell in the hand; and Koe in the knee. The wounded Officer Koe, a SWAT Team member, returned fire, striking Anderson with fatal shots to the head and chest.

Homes and vehicles in the neighborhood were peppered with bullets fired by Anderson who was armed with an SKS rifle, similar to a military AK-47, a .357-caliber pistol, and a .22-caliber derringer. Koe was the only officer known to have fired his weapon. Chief of Police Jerry Barker said, "It wasn't until that final confrontation, basically face to face with the perpetrator, that firearms were fired by police."

When officers entered the home of Anderson's 66-year old mother, Alice Marie Anderson, they found that she had also been fatally shot by Anderson.

Earlier in the year, on January 20, 2004, police had been sent to 2704 S. Dietz Avenue to help paramedics with a combative patient. During that incident, police placed Anderson under immediate detention and confiscated a large quantity of weapons and ammunition. Upon release from his detention, Anderson sought return of the confiscated weapons. In the absence of legal authority to prevent the return of the weapons, the Police Department released them to Anderson in early March 2004. Following the August shooting, family and friends reported Anderson was a troubled man who suffered from schizophrenia, and who had not been taking his prescribed medication.

Officers Conley, Essig, Troxell, and Koe, all of whom wore body armor, survived their injuries.

Officer Laird was laid to rest at Crown Hill Cemetery following an emotional funeral service at St. Luke's United Methodist Church that was attended by 2,200 mourners. During the service, Chief of Police Jerry Barker retired Officer Laird's badge (2479) and his car number (C421) and posthumously awarded Officer Laird IPD's Medal of Honor and Purple Heart.

The funeral was followed by a procession of more than 500 squad cars that extended more than seven miles. Hundreds of well-wishers gathered along the route and at IPD Headquarters and South District. Seven hundred uniformed law enforcement officers and 150 family members gathered at the grave site to pay their final respects. Shifts of mourning IPD officers attending the funeral and burial were covered by officers from the Marion County Sheriff's Department and the Speedway, Lawrence, and Beech Grove Police Departments.

Officer Laird was appointed to the Police Department on March 6, 2000. He served as a patrol officer on the IPD's South District where he was known as a professional who was respected and well-liked by co-workers. After graduating from Warren Central High School in 1991, Laird joined the Marines where he served 8 years. Laird is survived by his wife and 7-year old daughter.