Officers that have died in the line of duty or while working as well as officers that have died as a result of line of duty injuries, or line of duty illness. Not every fallen officer will, or should receive the Medal of Honor, not all will be considered a hero, but anyone that dies as a result of a line of duty injury, or illness did make the ultimate sacrifice and does deserve to be remembered for that sacrifice to the communities they served. The following is a list of 205 sworn Baltimore Police Officers that gave their lives for the job. Added to the list bringing it up to 206 is one honorary police officer, he was a tailor that risked his life to save the life of a police officer under attack, for his efforts he was shot and paralyzed, after several years he died as a result of complications brought on from the bullet left in him. This list also contains officers that were infected with viruses, sufferer heart attacks, and suffered other illness brought on by the job as well as other injuries that took them from us way too soon. May they all be remembered for their sacrifices, as they continue to Rest In Peace. 

 

1808 - 15 March 1808 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman George Workner.

1844 - 19 June 1844 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman Alexander McIntosh 

1856 - 13 November, 1856 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman John O'Mayer

1857 - 14 October 1857 - We lost our Brother Sergeant William Jourdan   

1858 - 27 Jun 1858 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry Wilcox 

1858 - 22 September, 1858 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Benjamin Benton

1858 - 5 November, 1858 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert M. Rigdon

1863 - 18 Feb 1863 - We lost our Brother Sergeant William Wright 

1870 - 5 July, 1870 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Murphy  

1870 - 17 Aug 1870 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Richard Chanowith

1871 - 12 January, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles J Walsh *

1871 - 22 May, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Clark

1871 - 14 September, 1871 - We lost our Brother Detective John H. Richards

1872 - 18 August 1872 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Christopher  

1872 - 22 Nov 1872 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Franklin Fullum *

1873 - 12 January 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John H. Dames * 

1873 - 12 January 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James T. Harvey * 

1873 -  6 October 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Thomas Baldwin *

1873 - 11 November 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman William H Healy * 

1875 - 27 Nov 1875 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Robert Wright  

1877 - 4 Aug 1877 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry Schaper   

1883 - 27 September 1883 - We lost our Brother Captain Benjamin Franklin Kenney

1884 - 6 January, 1884 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles W. Fisher   

1884 - 12 Jan 1884 - We lost our Brother Patrolman George Pumphrey  

1885 - 20 March, 1885 - We lost our Brother Police Officer August Harting

1889 -4 July, 1889 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Lloyd

1891 - 15 July, 1891 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jacob Zapp

1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James T. Dunn 

1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael Neary

1895 - 16 June, 1895 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Benjamin Graham

1895 - 17 October, 1895 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Dailey

1898 - 11 February 1898 - We lost our Brother Police Lieutenant Michael F Black

1899 -  3 July 1899 - We lost our Brother Police Detective John S. Pontier  

1899 - 29 August, 1899 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Alonzo B. Bishop

1900 - 11 June 1900 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Michael W. Ryan  

1902 - 20 May 1902 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John a McIntyre *

1902 - 30 July 1902 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles J. Donohue 

1905 - 26 January 1905 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Mathew Boone * (1) 

1905 - 25 December 1905 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles Spitznagle * 

1909 - 4 March 1909 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas H. Worthington * (2) 

1910 - 16 Sept1910 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Tuohy

1911 - 16 September 1911 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph Smyth 

1912 - 25 November 1912 - We lost our Brother Officer John McGrain * 

1915 - 18 April 1915 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George C. Sauer  

1915 - 8 July 1915 We lost our Brother Police Sergeant William F. Higgins  

1915 - 21 September 1915 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herbert Bitzel  * (3)

1915 - 25 December 1915 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Paul Meeks

1917 - 22 January 1917 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Michael Burns * (4) 

1918 - 13 February 1918 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Daniel Benedict

1918 - 19 March 1918 - We lost our Sister Police Matron Teresa Foll *  

1918 -   6 July 1918 - We lost our Brother Patrolman George Kessler 

1918 -   8 July 1918 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Charles H McClean

1919 - 16 Feb 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Albert L. Borrell  

1919 -   3 July 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Lanahan 

1920 - 2 October 1920 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael J Egan * (5) 

1921 - 1 May 1921 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Edgar Shellito *

1923 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Edward Swift *

1924 - 2 March 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank L. Latham 

1924 - 20 June 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles S. Frank *

1925 - 2 January 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George D. Hart * (6)

1925 - 18 May 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Patrick J Coniffee * (7)

1925 -1 November 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Leroy L. Mitchell  

1925 - 3 July 1925 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John E. Harris * (8) 

1926 - 9 February 1926 We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton Heckwolf

1926 - 29 June 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Webster E. Schumann

1926 - 12 July 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Clerk Thomas J. Dillon 

1926 - 31 Oct 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles W. Robb

1927 - 7 Dec 1927 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Harry Sullivan

1927 - 5 August 1927 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William F. Doehler

1928 - 12 February 1928 - We lost our Brother Sergeant George M. J. May  

1928 - 19 November 1928 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph F. Carroll 

1929 - 26 July 1929 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James M. Moore   

1930 - 7 May 1930 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Robert L. Osborne 

1931 - 7 January 1931 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John P. Burns   

1931 - 10 Nov, 1931 - We lost our Brother Captain Edward J Carey 

1931 - 6 Dec, 1931 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Howard Pitts

1932 - 2 January 1932 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William A. Bell 

1932 - 5 March 1932 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Charles R. Bozman 

1932 - 4 October 1932 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas F. Steinacker 

1933 - 21 April 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John R. J. Block  

1933 - 7 March 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Lt. Cornelius J. Roche  

1933 -  9 March 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Capt. Charles H. Burns

1934 - 12 February 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Blank  

1934 -   5 September 1934 - We lost our Brother Serge Michael McSweeny

1934 -  2 November 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John A. Stapf

1934 - 20 December 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry W. Sudmeier

1935 - 14 February 1935 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Max Hirsh

1935 - 31 Oct 1935 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Arthur H. Malinofski

1935 - 22 Nov 1935 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James P. Lennon

1936 - 16 February 1936 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur R. Cornthwaite  

1936 - 9 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Leo Bacon

1936 - 29 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carroll Hanley

1936 - 28 December 1936 -  We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. King, Jr.

1937 - 31 December 1937 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. Barlow

1937 - 17 November 1937 - We lost our Brother Capt. Charles A. Kahler *

1938 - 25 Mar 1938 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry E. Auld 

1938 -  1 Nov 1938 -  We lost our Brother Chief Engineer Joseph Edward Keene 

1939 - 5 May 1939 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Charles W. Frizzell 

1940 - 13 June 1940 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William L. Ryan 

1941 - 11 January 1941 - We lost our Brother Capt. Havey Von Harten 

1943 - 13 June 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Woodcock 

1943 - 7 November 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William S. Knight 

1943 - 16 November 1943 - We lost our Brother Detective Patrolman Charles H. Reid 

1944 - 29 January 1944 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Waldsachs * (9) 

1945 - 17 August 1945 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Burns  

1945 - 10 September 1945 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John B. Bealefeld  

1946 - 1 March 1946, We lost our Brother Patrolman George H. Weichert *  

1946 - 27 June 1946 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James M Shamer *  

1946 - 20 November 1946 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Elmer A. Noon  

1947 - 13 January 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Fred R. Unger 

1947 - 13 October 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles Hart * 

1948 - 13 February 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Daniel Benedict 

1948 - 1 October 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. Burns 

1948 - 30 December 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John W. Arnold

1949 - 4 April 1949 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James L. Joyce

1949 - 16 October 1949 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. O'Neill

1950 - 4 August 1950 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles M. Hilbert 

1951 - 6 January 1951 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Roland W. Morgan

1951 - 23 June 1951 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur Weiss

1953 - 1 August 1953 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James L. Scholl 

1954 - 14 February 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Alfred P. Bobelis 

1954 - 19 April 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Aubrey L. Lowman 

1954 - 1 July 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter D. Davis  

1955 - 24 October 1955 - We lost our Brother Sergeant James J. Purcell

1956 - 6 Feb 1956 - - We lost our Brother Patrolman John Neill

1956 - 27 May 1956 - We lost our Brother Police Lieutenant William P. Thompson  

1956 - 29 September 1956 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John R. Phelan 

1957 - 9 October 1957 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John F. Andrews 

1958 - 19 September 1958 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert K. Nelson

1959 - 11 January 1959 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard H. Duvall, Jr.

1960 - 16 November 1960 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Warren V. Eckert 

1961 - 8 Oct 1961 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John R Falconer 

1962 - 7 April, 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry Smith, Jr. 

1962 - 26 May 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard D. Seebo 

1962 - 2 July 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward J. Kowalewski 

1964 - 10 January 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Francis R. Stransky 

1964 - 6 February 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Claude J. Profili  

1964 - 11 September 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter Patrick Matthys  

1964 - 15 October 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Teddy L. Bafford 

1964 - 25 December 1964 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Jack Lee Cooper 

1965 - 20 January 1965 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles R. Ernest 

1965 - 22 July 1965 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert Henry Kuhn

1966 - 24 August 1946 - We lost our Brother Honorary Police Officer Simon Fried * 1*

1967 - 25 January 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Baumer 

1967 - 10 February 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frederick K. Kontner

1967 - 21 August 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John C. Williams

1968 - 18 April 1968 - We lost our Brother Detective Richard F. Bosak

1968 - 12 November 1968 We lost our Brother Sergeant Frant Ankrom *

1969 - 20 June 1969 - We lost our Brother William Wilder

1970 - 16 January 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George F. Heim

1970 - 24 March 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry M. Mickey

1970 - 24 April 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Donald W. Sager

1971 - 12 June 1971 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carl Peterson, Jr. 

1971 - 1 August 1971 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Martin Webb

1972 - 26 July 1972 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Lorenzo Arnest Gray 

1973 - 1 December 1973 - We lost our Brother Detective Wiley M. Owens  

1973 - 29 March 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert M. Hurley  

1973 - 6 April 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Norman Frederick Buchman  

1973 - 22 September 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Calvin M. Rodwell  

1974 - 5 May 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank Warren Whitby, Jr. 

1974 - 1 August 1974 - We lost our Brother Det Sgt Frank William Grunder, Jr. 

1974 - 15 August 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton I. Spell  

1974 - 10 December 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Martin Joseph Greiner  

1975 - 13 September 1975 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward S. Sherman 

1975 - 27 October 1975 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Timothy B. Ridenour 

1976 - 16 April 1976 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jimmy Dale Halcomb 

1978 - 15 February 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edgar J. Rumpf 

1978 - 23 April 1978 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Robert John Barlow 

1978 - 27 October 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Nelson F. Bell, Jr.

1979 - 2 March 1979 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John H. Spencer 

1979 - 19 August 1979 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William D. Albers 

1981 - 20 July 1981 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Ronald L. Tracey 

1984 - 28 June 1984 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Johnny LaGrone 

1984 - 3 December 1984 - We lost our Brother Detective Marcellus Ward 

1985 - 8 October 1985 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard J. Lear 

1985 - 18 November 1985 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Vincent J. Adolfo 

1986 - 21 July 1986 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard Thomas Miller 

1986 - 20 September 1986 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert Alexander 

1989 - 10 October 1989 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Martin 

1992 - 21 September 1992 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Ira Neil Weiner

1993 - 26 May 1993 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herman A. Jones, Sr. 

1994 - 24 June 1994 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Gerald M. Arminger 

1994 - 14 October 1994 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Richard Harris  

1997 - 7 May 1997 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Owen Eugene Sweeney, Jr. 

1998 - 30 October 1998 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Harold Jerome Carey 

1998 - 4 November 1998 - We lost our Brother Flight Officer Barry Winston Wood 

2000 - 8 March, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jamie Allen Roussey 

2000 - 21 April, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Kevon Malik Gavin 

2000 - 14 October, 2000 - We lost our Brother Sergeant John  David Platt 

2000 - 14 October, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Kevin Joseph McCarthy 

2001 - 12 March, 2001 - We lost our Brother Agent Michael Joseph Cowdery, Jr.

2002 - 22 August, 2002 - We lost our Sister Police Officer Crystal Deneen Sheffield

2002 - 23 November, 2002 - We lost our Brother Detective Thomas G. Newman

2003 - 17 April 2003 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter A Taylor Jr 

2004 - 3 July 2004 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Brian Donte Winder  

2006 - 19 May, 2006 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Anthony A. Byrd

2007 - 9 January 2007 - We lost our Brother Detective Troy Lamont Chesley, Sr.

2009 - 19 Nov 2009 - We lost our Brother Special Agent Samuel Hicks  

2010 - 27 September 2010 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Earl Fowler, III  

2010 - 16 October 2010 - We lost our Brother Detective Brian Stevenson  

2010 - 20 October 2010 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas Russell Portz, Jr. 

2011 - 9 January 2011 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William Henry Torbit, Jr. 

2012 - 29 August 2012 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Forrest "Dino" Taylor 

2013 - 10 July 2013 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Shane Volk

2015 - 9 January, 2015 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Craig Chandler  

2017 - 16 November 2017 - We lost our Brother Police Detective Sean M. Suiter