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Phoenix Police Officer
Donald Schultz #4410
May 12, 2004 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Marc Todd Atkinson #5930
March 26th, 1999 |
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Phoenix Police Sergeant
Danny L. Tunney #1437
July 26th, 1990 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Goelet Beuf #6896
November 1, 1999 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Albert R. Bluhm #947
December 28th, 1970 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Patrick O. Briggs #4317
June 20th, 1990 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Haze Burch
February 5th, 1925 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Kenneth E. Campbell #3973
January 29th, 1984 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Gilbert R. Chavez #2684
June 16th, 1975 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Kenneth L. Collings #3855
May 27th, 1988 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Ignacio G. Conchos #2853
July 1st, 1982 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
John R. Davis #1841
August 2, 1982 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Arthur E. Del Gaudio, JR. #2964
April 22nd, 1976 |
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Phoenix Police Sergeant
John Wayne Domblisky #2647
July 26th, 1990 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Robert T. Fike #3281
January 8th, 1986 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Kevin W. Forsythe #3289
September 7th, 1984 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Errol "Rusty" Hawkins #2417
April 24, 1984 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Quincy Clay Haywood #1451
November 22nd, 1971 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Michael D. Hemschmeyer #1845
November 2nd, 1973 |
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Phoenix Police Sergeant
David“Marty” Kieffer #2014
May 21, 1997 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Leonard L. Kolodziej #2387
September 4th, 1991 |
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Phoenix Police Guard
John F. MacInnis #A513
February 23nd, 1976 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Robert L. Polmanteer #3549
May 4th, 1984 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
John A. Robertson #3127
November 19th, 1984 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Beryl "Wayne" Scott #5580
September 10, 2002 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Walter H. Stewart
February 19th, 1952 |
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Phoenix Police Officer
Dale C. Stone #1697
December 28th, 1970 |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Alan H. Hansen, 34
Hometown: Kingman
Badge No. 204
Died July 19, 1973
Officer Hansen was killed in Kingman when a railroad tanker loaded with butane exploded. In all, 13 people were killed and 112 were injured in the afternoon explosion. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Bruce A. Petersen, 30
Hometown: Taylor
Badge No. 3536
Died Oct. 20, 1987
Officer Petersen was in pursuit of a speeding vehicle on State Route 61 near Concho when his patrol vehicle left the roadway and struck a tree. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Don A. Beckstead, 28
Hometown: Houck
Badge No. 409
Died Feb. 7, 1971
A few minutes after shooting Officer Keeton, Greenberg shot Officer Beckstead during another traffic stop. It is believed that Officer Beckstead was not aware of the shooting involving Keeton. Officer Beckstead died two days later in a Gallup, N.M., hospital. After shooting the two DPS officers, Greenberg kidnapped and killed another person during the chase before New Mexico authorities shot and killed him. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Douglas E. Knutson, 43
Hometown: Scottsdale
Badge No. 3818
Died Jan. 2, 1998
While standing and waiting for a tow truck to remove an abandoned vehicle at the gore point of Scottsdale Road and westbound Loop 202 (Red Mountain Freeway), Motorcycle Officer Knutson suffered multiple injuries when struck from behind by a small pickup truck driven by Brett Baxter, 22, of Tempe. He was taken to Maricopa County Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Officer Knutson was the first DPS motorcycle officer to be killed in the line of duty. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Sgt. David J. Zesiger, 47
Hometown: Lakeside
Badge No. 1848
Died July 3, 1992
Sgt. Zesiger was leading a family to a campsite near McNary when his fully-marked departmental Chevrolet Blazer was struck head-on by a pickup truck driven by Calvin Dayea, who was found to be driving under the influence. In April 1993, Dayea was sentenced to four years in a federal prison but was released Dec. 21, 1994. Ten days later, Dec. 31, 1994, he was arrested by a DPS officer following a short pursuit on the Navajo Reservation. Dayea was found to be in violation of his parole (drinking alcoholic beverages) and was returned to a federal prison to complete his term. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Ed Rebel, 50
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 233
Died June 28, 1988
Officer Rebel, 50, was shot to death while attempting to arrest a suspect driving a stolen car near Marana on Interstate 10. Officer Rebel, despite his mortal wound, was able to fire a volley of shots, killing his assailant, Bruce Beaty, 23, of Houston. Beaty was believed to be part of a stolen car ring. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Gregory A. Diley, 28
Hometown: Kingman
Badge No. 1442
Died Dec. 2, 1977
Officer Diley, 28, was returning to Kingman following a narcotics investigation when he was killed in a one-vehicle crash west of Kingman on Interstate 40. The death of Officer Diley, who was assigned to the Criminal Investigation Bureau at DPS, was the first outside the Highway Patrol Bureau. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Gilbert A. (Gib) Duthie, 39
Hometown: Mesa
Badge No. 143
Died Sept. 5, 1970
Officer Duthie was the first Arizona Department of Public Safety officer to lose his life in the line of duty. The preceding three deaths occurred before the formation of DPS. Officer Duthie died the evening of Sept. 5 when his patrol car was swept away by Sycamore Creek flood waters near Sunflower on State Route 87. Officer Duthie and his patrol car were found the following morning. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Sgt. John M. Blaser, 36
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 2916
Died Aug. 31, 1990
Sgt. Blaser died after being transported to a Tucson-area hospital. He was the first DPS line supervisor to die in the line of duty. The driver, James B. Sheets, was found guilty July 18, 1991, of manslaughter and reckless endangerment by a Pima County Superior Court jury. In September 1991, a judge ordered Sheets to serve 9-year sentences on each of the two manslaughter counts and three years for reckless endangerment. The sentences were to run consecutively. Sheets died May 21, 1997, at St. Mary’s Hospital of natural causes at the age of 52. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Juan N. Cruz, 48
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 3111
Died Dec 9, 1998
Officer Cruz, along with two other DPS officers, were blocking the high-speed (left) traffic lane of Interstate 10 in Tucson, Arizona, with their patrol vehicles, while investigating a prior collision. A westbound vehicle driven by Tucson resident Marissa A. Rodriguez, 21, struck the rear of Officer Cruz's vehicle, which was positioned at the far east end of the collision scene. Officer Cruz was sitting in his vehicle at the time of the collision and received fatal injuries as a result of the crash. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Johnny E. Garcia, 33
Hometown: Eloy
Badge No. 3572
Died Oct. 14, 1989
Officer Garcia died while responding to a report of a drunken driver whose car was stuck in a right-of-way fence near the Picacho interchange on Interstate 10. While passing a car on State Route 84 near Casa Grande, Officer Garcia's patrol car struck loose gravel, rolled three times, hit a car and then a tree. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer James L. Keeton, 27
Hometown: Navajo
Badge No. 310
Died Feb. 5, 1971
Officer Keeton was shot to death with his own weapon by Bertram Greenberg, a suspect in the rape and murder of a 13-year-old California girl. Keeton, who lost his pistol during a skirmish with Greenberg, was shot after stopping Greenberg for a traffic violation on Interstate 40, 12 miles west of the New Mexico state line. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer John C. Walker, 46
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 150
Died Nov. 30, 1979
Officer Walker was shot and killed while working an undercover cocaine case. He was sitting in his car at Tucson International Airport when he was shot. The assailant, Genaro Celaya, 28, of Ajo, was captured a short time later with Walker's flash roll in his possession. Celaya is serving a life sentence in an Arizona prison. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Louis O. Cochran, 45
Hometown: Yuma
Badge No. 59
Died Dec. 22, 1958
While stopped along U.S. 80 one mile east of Dateland, Patrolman Cochran's patrol car was struck from behind and burst into flames, killing the officer. It was the first death in the 25-year history of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Sgt. Michael L. Crowe, 41
Hometown: Yuma
Badge No. 2729
Died July 4, 1995
Sgt. Crowe was shot to death along with Yuma Police Department Lt. Dan Elkins after they arrived at the Southwest Border Alliance headquarters building near the Yuma International Airport. The two were members of the SBA task force and had agreed to meet at the building to discuss missing items from the SBA property room. Upon entering the building, they interrupted a burglary in progress and were shot by the intruder. Yuma police arrested Jack Ray Hudson, a Yuma County Sheriff's Office deputy, as a suspect in the double murder. The deputy was a fellow member of the same narcotics task force and was later convicted of the double murder. On April 30, 1997, Hudson was sentenced to prison for life. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Reserve Sgt. Mark Dryer, 35
Hometown: Phoenix
Badge No. 9764
Died July 3, 1993
While standing near a motorist he had stopped for speeding 20 miles south of Phoenix on Interstate 10, Sgt. Dryer was struck and killed by a passing car driven by Charles Robert Ransier, 33, of Phoenix. Sgt. Dryer was the first DPS reserve officer to be killed in the line of duty. The motorist, who was under the influence of drugs at the time of the incident, was sentenced in May 1995 to 15 years in an Arizona state prison. The Department’s Reserve Officer of the Year Award is named in Sgt. Dryer’s honor. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Sgt. Manuel H. Tapia, 41
Hometown: Nogales
Badge No. 1409
Died Jan. 8, 1991
Sgt. Tapia was shot at about 7 p.m. Jan. 7, 1991, in Nogales by a drug suspect. He died at about 1 a.m. Jan. 8, 1991, at Tucson Medical Center. The suspect, Noel Gonzales-Bernal of Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, was fatally shot by a Nogales police officer. The incident occurred in Nogales, about a mile north of the border, after Tapia and the Nogales police officer stopped the suspect's Thunderbird. Upon asking the suspect to open the vehicle's trunk, the suspect fled on foot with Sgt. Tapia chasing him. The suspect then turned and shot Sgt. Tapia. The suspect was then shot. It was later learned that Sgt. Tapia was unarmed, having inadvertently left his weapon in his vehicle. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Noah M. (Mac) Merrill, 33
Hometown: Benson
Badge No. 695
Died Dec. 11, 1978
During a traffic stop on Interstate 10, eight miles east of Benson, Officer Merrill was struck by a passing tractor-trailer. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Paul E. Marston, 31
Hometown: Prescott
Badge No. 138
Died June 9, 1969
Patrolman Marston was shot and killed by prison escapee Danny Lee Eckard during a gun battle on a farm in Chino Valley. Eckard, nicknamed the Desert Fox by the Arizona media for his ability to escape and survive in the desert, was then fatally shot by Patrolman Ron Mayes who was riding with Marston. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Robert K. Martin, 57
Hometown: Chandler
Badge No. 474
Died Aug. 15, 1995
Officer Martin was shot to death during a traffic stop on the Beeline Highway, about seven miles north of Shea Boulevard. With 27 years of service, Officer Martin had the most years of service among DPS/AHP officers killed in the line of duty. His assailant, Ernesto Salgado Martinez, a 19-year-old ex-convict from Globe, fled the scene and was captured two days later in California. Today, Martinez awaits sentencing after being convicted on Sept. 26, 1997, on one count of first-degree murder, two counts of theft and two counts of misconduct. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Richard Stratman, 27
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 1622
Died Oct. 2, 1983
Paramedic Stratman was on the same mission as Pilot McNeff in a departmental helicopter during a rainstorm when it crashed in a cotton field near Marana. The DPS aircraft was enroute to Catalina to pick up a pregnant woman and fly her to a Tucson medical facility. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Thomas McNeff, 36
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 1758
Died Oct. 2, 1983
Pilot McNeff was flying a DPS helicopter in a rainstorm when it crashed in a cotton field near Marana. The DPS aircraft was en route to Catalina to pick up a pregnant woman and fly her to a Tucson hospital. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer William H. Murie, 31
Hometown: Flagstaff
Badge No. 721
Died Nov. 19, 1980
Officer Murie was en route to Phoenix from Flagstaff on Nov. 16 when he stopped just north of Phoenix on Interstate 17 to assist at a crash scene. He was struck by a passing vehicle, crushing his legs and a wrist. Complications resulting from these injuries led to his death on Nov. 19, 1980. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer David G. Gabrielli, 43
Hometown: Tucson
Badge No. 1231
Died Aug. 31, 1990
Officer Gabrielli was killed while investigating a previous fatal crash on U.S. 89, just south of Valencia Road in Tucson. Officer Gabrielli, who was standing in the median with Sgt. John M. Blaser, was struck from behind by a car driven by a drunken driver, James B. Sheets. Officer Gabrielli died at the scene. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer F. J. "Skip" Fink, Jr., 53
Hometown: Globe, AZ
Badge No. 940
Died Feb. 18, 2000
At approximately 5:40 a.m., DPS Officer Floyd J. “Skip” Fink, Jr., a 28-year department veteran, was killed as the result of a traffic collision eastbound on US 60, just west of McClintock Drive in Tempe, Arizona. Officer Fink stopped a motorist for an apparent traffic violation. Just as both vehicles had come to a stop, a Honda Prelude driven by Tempe resident Robert Stravers, 22, entered the emergency lane and struck the rear of Officer Fink’s vehicle. The impact trapped Officer Fink in his vehicle which then caught fire. Several citizens stopped, fought the fire, and were able to pull Officer Fink from his burning vehicle. Stravers fled the scene and was later apprehended. |
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Arizona Department of Public Safety Officer Brett C. Buckmister, 27
Hometown: Mesa, AZ
Badge No. 5548
Died March 21, 2000
At approximately 9:30 a.m. on March 21, 2000, DPS Officer Brett Buckmister was killed when his patrol car collided with a van on US89 in Page, Arizona. Officer Buckmister was responding to another collision on US89 at the time of the fatal collision. Three of the five occupant of the van received fatal injuries in the collision. Officer Buckmister started his career with DPS in February 1999. |
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Chandler Police Officer James Snedigar #312
Age: 38 years old
Date of Final 10-7: Friday, April 16, 1999
Officer Snedigar was fatally shot on April 16, 1999 while performing a swat raid on armed robbery suspects. |
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Chandler Police Officer Robert Nielsen #445
Age: 25 years old
Date of Final 10-7: Wednesday, June 12, 2002
Officer Nielsen lost his life at 1:51 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12, 2002, as a result of a traffic collision at Chandler Boulevard and Pennington while en route to a call for service at another accident scene. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Gerald Barnes - Saturday, October 05, 1957
Deputy Gerald Barnes drowned while pinned in the wreckage of the Sheriff's four passenger Tri-Pacer after it crashed into the Arizona Canal seven miles northeast of Scottsdale. Barnes and Deputy Frank Grove were serving as scanners while Sgt. Paul Mullenix piloted the plane in a search for a stolen truck and a car used in a holdup. When the low flying plane stalled, its landing gear hit a power line and toppled the plane into a four-foot deep canal. Witnesses irrigating a nearby field helped rescue the pilot and the Deputy in the front seat, but Deputy Barnes was trapped in a rear seat, and they were unable to reach him in time. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Kenneth R Blair - Thursday, September 28, 1995
Responding to a domestic violence call at a Glendale apartment, Deputy Blair called for backup but decided to go in alone when he heard a woman screaming. Blair was gunned down as he entered the residence. The gunman, who was standing in a bedroom doorway, shot the Deputy once in the head and three times in the chest before using the last bullet to kill himself. Deputy Blair had no chance to use the pepper spray in his hand, and the bullets that struck him all landed above his bullet-proof vest. Backup arrived just seven minutes after his call. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Ralph Butler - Monday, June 12, 1972
On a summer Sunday morning Deputy Butler was patrolling Highway 60 west of Wickenburg when he received a radio call for assistance at a double fatality accident near Wittman. After turning his car around off the pavement, he pulled back on the road directly in the path of a large tractor-trailer rig. Pinned in the wreckage, Butler waited more than an hour and a half for an ambulance to come from Phoenix because the local emergency vehicles were in service twenty-five miles away at the earlier accident. After emergency treatment in Wickenburg Deputy Butler was taken by helicopter to Phoenix for surgery, but the next evening he died of injuries received in the collision. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Almon W Dana - Sunday, April 09, 1922
Two motorcycle Deputies attempted to set a speed trap near 22nd Street on the Tempe Road (Van Buren). About 2 a.m. a fast-moving car coming from the East passed Dep. Frank Bell who immediately engaged in pursuit. Dep. Dana, at the western end of the trap, heard the car's engine and pulled out from a side road where he was hiding. Just missing the speeding car, he collided with Deputy Bell who was following at full speed. As was customary in those days, motorcycles in pursuit did not use lights and they had no radios. Almon Dana, who was pinned under his machine, died the next day from his injuries. Frank Bell, though seriously hurt, was thrown clear and survived. The speeder disappeared and was never caught. |
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Maricopa County Lt. Robert Dorn - Tuesday, August 31, 1965
Lt. Bob Dorn stopped to assist an apparently stalled car at 91st Avenue and Glendale. The driver had been visited recently by Deputies inquiring about his delinquent taxes. In panic over the possibility of losing his trailer home, the man jumped out of his truck and began firing with no warning. The fatally wounded Dorn returned fire. A passing motorist went to a phone and called the Sheriff. When deputies arrived, they found the Lieutenant's body lying beside his unmarked patrol car. The man who killed him was located within the hour and charged with murder after his non-serious bullet wounds were treated. |
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Maricopa County Res. Dep. Jim L Epp - Wednesday, March 01, 1978
A posseman with more than twenty years as a Maricopa County Sheriff's Office volunteer, Reserve Deputy Jim Epp drowned while attempting to rescue two women trapped in their car when a Cave Creek Wash flooded. Epp was carried away while trying to attach a chain to their car, and his body was found about a mile downstream several hours later. The two women were brought to shore safely after the flood receded. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Eduardo M Gonzales - Monday, August 28, 1995
While joining the pursuit of a burglary suspect, Deputy Gonzales swerved to avoid hitting a car entering the intersection at 59th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Road. His patrol car slammed into a parked cement truck, and Gonzales was killed at the scene. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Warren LaRue - Monday, January 18, 1971
In a single day, two veteran deputies were killed while serving a civil writ of attachment. At 1300 hours they arrived at 5344 East Van Buren Street to repossess a mobile home in satisfaction for an $833 bank judgment. The owner shot Deputy LaRue in the back four times and then engaged in a shoot-out with Deputy Stone. All three died at the scene. Both of these line-of-duty deaths had sad and unusual circumstances. Deputy LaRue was only fifty-nine days short of his twenty-five year retirement, and Deputy Stone's son, a Phoenix Police officer, had been killed in a motorcycle accident only three weeks earlier while going to the aid of a downed officer. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Vernon Marconnet - Thursday, June 30, 1988
On patrol near 35th Avenue and Carver Road, Deputy Marconnet stopped to investigate two suspicious vehicles. He found a father and three sons who had been drinking and arguing. Just after he called for backup, 9-1-1 received a call that an officer was in trouble. Police arrived to find the Deputy dead beside his car. When Marconnet was putting the older man into the patrol car, one of the sons grabbed the deputy's gun and gave it to his father. Deputy Marconnet was killed with his own weapon, and all four family members were tried for his murder. |
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Maricopa County Cpl. Darrell McCloud - Monday, May 13, 1985
Corporal "Bud" McCloud was on a routine traffic call at 2100 hours when his life was taken in a collision at the intersection of 107th Avenue and Camelback. Passers-by pulled him from his patrol car and administered CPR until paramedics arrived, and then he was flown to the hospital where he died of his injuries. Ironically, McCloud died during Law Enforcement Memorial week. |
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Maricopa County Sgt. Patrick J Riley - Friday, March 11, 1994
Sgt. Patrick Riley was struck by a dump truck and killed while directing traffic at a construction site on 64th Street and University Drive. Though he was working an off-duty job, his death qualifies as line-of-duty because he was authorized by his supervisor to perform this function restricted to peace officers. Riley had directed a truck to proceed through an intersection and make a left turn. During the turn, the left rear fender struck him, throwing the Sergeant to the ground. He was run over by both sets of rear tires and died approximately two hours later. |
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Maricopa County Sp. Dep. Edward Roberts - Wednesday, July 21, 1937
On a July morning Special Deputy Roberts was summoned to Southwest Cotton Camp #53 in Litchfield Park in response to reports that J.R. Murdoch, foreman of the camp had been killed by a drunken employee he had fired. As Roberts hurried toward the camp, the enraged laborer stepped out from behind a cabin and fired a shot. The wounded deputy slumped to the ground, unable to defend himself while his assailant grabbed Roberts' own gun, using it to fire a second and fatal shot. Before backup from the Sheriff's Office got to the scene, a foreman from a nearby camp arrived and killed the slayer in a pitched gun battle. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Rex Stone - Monday, January 18, 1971
In a single day, two veteran deputies were killed while serving a civil writ of attachment. At 1300 hours they arrived at 5344 East Van Buren Street to repossess a mobile home in satisfaction for an $833 bank judgment. The owner shot Deputy LaRue in the back four times and then engaged in a shoot-out with Deputy Stone. All three died at the scene. Both of these line-of-duty deaths had sad and unusual circumstances. Deputy LaRue was only fifty-nine days short of his twenty-five year retirement, and Deputy Stone's son, a Phoenix Police officer, had been killed in a motorcycle accident only three weeks earlier while going to the aid of a downed officer. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Burtice W Wickstrum - Monday, January 08, 1951
Deputy Wickstrum died of injuries suffered in a late night collision at the intersection of Third Avenue and Fillmore Street. He and Deputy C.H. Russell were rushing to a reported sighting of a wanted killer when the accident occurred. Wickstrum was thrown from the patrol car and run over by its rear wheels after it struck a tree. Deputy Russell escaped injury; the other driver recovered; and the reported sighting proved to be the wrong man. |
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Maricopa County Dep. Lee Wright - Wednesday, January 29, 1930
On the morning of January 14, 1930, Deputy Lee Wright participated in an attempt to stop a car carrying three kidnappers and their hostage, Pinal County Deputy Joe Chapman. When Chapman tried to arrest Irene Schroeder (The Trigger Woman) in Florence, he was overcome by Glenn Dague and Joel Wells, akaVernon Ackerman, an ex-convict from Ohio. Wells was traveling with Schroeder and Dague who were fleeing a Pennsylvania murder charge. The gun toting trio sped out of town in a stolen Chrysler coupe complete with rumble seat. During a gunfight at a roadblock in front of Chandler's San Marcos Hotel, Chapman was wounded, but he escaped and survived. In the same exchange of fire, the shots that struck Deputy Wright proved fatal, though he lingered on for sixteen days. The suspects fled the scene in Chandler, but all three were captured with the aid of volunteer pilot Thomas Metcalf flying a monoplane and using Deputy Stanley Price and a reporter as spotters. Ackerman was sentenced to life in prison for Wright's murder while Schroeder and Dague died in a Newcastle electric chair for killing Pennsylvania Highway Patrolman Brady Paul. |
