Fallen Heroes

 Fallen Heroes List

1787 -  May 1787 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman Turner HERE
1808 - 15 March 1808 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman George Workner HERE
1844 - 19 June 1844 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman Alexander McIntosh HERE
1856 - 13 November, 1856 - We lost our Brother Night Watchman John O'Mayer HERE
1857 - 14 October 1857 - We lost our Brother Sergeant William Jourdan HERE  
1858 - 27 Jun 1858 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry Wilcox  HERE
1858 - 22 September, 1858 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Benjamin Benton HERE
1858 - 05 November, 1858 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert M. Rigdon HERE
1863 - 18 Feb 1863 - We lost our Brother Sergeant William Wright  HERE
1870 - 05 July, 1870 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Murphy  HERE
1870 - 17 Aug 1870 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Richard Chanowith HERE
1871 - 12 January, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles J Walsh  HERE
1871 - 22 May, 1871 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Clark HERE
1871 - 14 September, 1871 - We lost our Brother Detective John H. Richards HERE
1872 - 18 August 1872 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Christopher  HERE
1872 - 22 Nov 1872 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Franklin Fullum HERE
1873 - 12 January 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John H. Dames HERE 
1873 - 12 January 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James T. Harvey HERE
1873 -  06 October 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Thomas Baldwin HERE
1873 - 11 November 1873 - We lost our Brother Patrolman William H Healy HERE 
1875 - 27 Nov 1875 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Robert Wright  HERE
1877 - 04 Aug 1877 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry Schaper  HERE
1883 - 27 September 1883 - We lost our Brother Captain Benjamin Franklin Kenney HERE
1884 - 06 January, 1884 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles W. Fisher   HERE
1884 - 12 Jan 1884 - We lost our Brother Patrolman George Pumphrey  HERE
1885 - 20 March, 1885 - We lost our Brother Police Officer August Harting  HERE
1889 -  04 July, 1889 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Lloyd  HERE
1891 - 15 July, 1891 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jacob Zapp  HERE
1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James T. Dunn  HERE
1894 - 20 June, 1894 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael Neary HERE
1895 - 16 June, 1895 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Benjamin Graham  HERE
1895 - 17 October, 1895 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Dailey HERE
1898 - 11 February 1898 - We lost our Brother Police Lieutenant Michael F Black HERE
1899 -  03 July 1899 - We lost our Brother Police Detective John S. Pontier  HERE
1899 - 29 August, 1899 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Alonzo B. Bishop HERE
1900 - 11 June 1900 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Michael W. Ryan  HERE
1902 - 20 May 1902 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles J. Donohue  HERE
1905 - 26 January 1905 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Mathew Boone HERE
1905 - 25 December 1905 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles Spitznagle HERE 
1909 - 04 March 1909 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas H. Worthington  HERE
1910 - 16 Sept1910 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. Tuohy  HERE
1911 - 16 September 1911 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph Smyth  HERE 
1912 - 25 November 1912 - We lost our Brother Officer John McGrain HERE 
1914 - 02 June 1914 - We lost our Brother Turnkey Carroll E Bond HERE 
1915 - 18 April 1915 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George C. Sauer  HERE
1915 - 08 July 1915 We lost our Brother Police Sergeant William F. Higgins  HERE
1915 - 21 September 1915 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herbert Bitzel  HERE
1915 - 25 December 1915 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Paul Meeks  HERE
1917 - 22 January 1917 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Michael Burns HERE 
1918 - 13 February 1918 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Daniel Benedict  HERE
1918 - 19 March 1918 - We lost our Sister Police Matron Teresa Foll HERE  
1918 -  06 July 1918 - We lost our Brother Patrolman George Kessler  HERE
1918 -  08 July 1918 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Charles H McClean  HERE
1919 - 16 Feb 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Albert L. Borrell  HERE
1919 - 03 July 1919 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Lanahan HERE
1920 - 02 October 1920 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Michael J Egan HERE 
1921 - 01 May 1921 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Edgar Shellito HERE
1923 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Edward Swift  HERE
1924 - 02 March 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank L. Latham  HERE
1924 - 20 June 1924 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles S. Frank  HERE
1925 - 02 January 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George D. Hart  HERE
1925 - 18 May 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Patrick J Coniffee  HERE
1925 - 01 November 1925 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Leroy L. Mitchell  HERE 
1925 - 03 July 1925 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John E. Harris HERE  
1925 - 02 August 1925 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Irvin E Martz HERE 
1926 - 09 February 1926 We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton Heckwolf  HERE
1926 - 29 June 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Webster E. Schumann  HERE
1926 - 12 July 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Clerk Thomas J. Dillon   HERE
1926 - 31 Oct 1926 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles W. Robb  HERE
1927 - 07 Dec 1927 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Harry Sullivan  HERE
1927 - 05 August 1927 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William F. Doehler  HERE
1928 - 12 February 1928 - We lost our Brother Sergeant George M. J. May HERE 
1928 -  28 June 1928 We lost our Brother Sergeant William Nicholson  HERE  
1928 - 19 November 1928 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Joseph F. Carroll   HERE
1929 - 26 July 1929 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James M. Moore   HERE 
1930 - 07 May 1930 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Robert L. Osborne  HERE
1931 - 07 January 1931 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John P. Burns   HERE 
1931 - 27 February 1931 - We lost our Brother Sergeant James Robert Moog  HERE
1931 - 10 Nov, 1931 - We lost our Brother Captain Edward J Carey  HERE
1931 - 06 Dec, 1931 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Howard Pitts  HERE
1932 - 02 January 1932 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William A. Bell   HERE
1932 - 05 March 1932 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Charles R. Bozman  HERE
1932 - 04 October 1932 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas F. Steinacker  HERE
1933 - 21 April 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John R. J. Block   HERE
1933 - 07 March 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Lt. Cornelius J. Roche  HERE
1933 - 09 March 1933 - We lost our Brother Police Capt. Charles H. Burns  HERE  
1933 - 27 Sept 1933 - We lost our Brother Patrolman William R Myers HERE
1934 - 12 February 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John Blank  HERE   
1934 - 12 July 1934 - We lost our Brother Detective Sergeant Raymond Golderman HERE 
1934 -  05 September 1934 - We lost our Brother Serge Michael McSweeny  HERE
1934 -  02 November 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John A. Stapf  HERE
1934 - 20 December 1934 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry W. Sudmeier  HERE
1935 - 14 February 1935 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Max Hirsh  HERE
1935 - 31 Oct 1935 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Arthur H. Malinofski  HERE
1935 - 22 Nov 1935 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James P. Lennon  HERE
1936 - 16 February 1936 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur R. Cornthwaite  HERE  
1936 - 09 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Leo Bacon  HERE
1936 - 29 October 1936 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carroll Hanley  HERE
1936 - 28 December 1936 -  We lost our Brother Police Officer John T. King, Jr.  HERE
1937 - 31 December 1937 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. Barlow  HERE
1937 - 17 November 1937 - We lost our Brother Capt. Charles A. Kahler HERE
1938 - 25 Mar 1938 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Henry E. Auld   HERE
1938 - 01 Nov 1938 -  We lost our Brother Chief Engineer Joseph Edward Keene  HERE 
1939 - 05 May 1939 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Charles W. Frizzell   HERE
1940 - 13 June 1940 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William L. Ryan   HERE
1941 - 11 January 1941 - We lost our Brother Capt. Havey Von Harten   HERE
1943 - 13 June 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Woodcock   HERE
1943 - 07 November 1943 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William S. Knight   HERE
1943 - 16 November 1943 - We lost our Brother Detective Patrolman Charles H. Reid   HERE
1944 - 29 January 1944 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Waldsachs HERE 
1945 - 17 August 1945 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John J. Burns   HERE
1945 - 10 September 1945 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John B. Bealefeld  HERE  
1946 - 01 March 1946, We lost our Brother Patrolman George H. Weichert   HERE  
1946 - 27 June 1946 - We lost our Brother Patrolman James M Shamer   HERE  
1946 - 20 November 1946 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Elmer A. Noon   HERE
1947 - 13 January 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Fred R. Unger   HERE
1947 - 13 October 1947 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles Hart    HERE 
1948 - 13 February 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Joseph Daniel Benedict  HERE 
1948 - 01 October 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. Burns   HERE
1948 - 30 December 1948 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John W. Arnold  HERE
1949 - 04 April 1949 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James L. Joyce   HERE
1949 - 16 October 1949 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas J. O'Neill  HERE
1950 - 04 August 1950 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles M. Hilbert   HERE
1951 - 06 January 1951 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Roland W. Morgan   HERE
1951 - 23 June 1951 - We lost our Brother Patrolman Arthur Weiss   HERE
1953 - 01 August 1953 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James L. Scholl    HERE
1954 - 14 February 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Alfred P. Bobelis   HERE
1954 - 19 April 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Aubrey L. Lowman   HERE
1954 - 01 July 1954 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter D. Davis   HERE
1955 - 24 October 1955 - We lost our Brother Sergeant James J. Purcell   HERE
1956 - 06 Feb 1956 - - We lost our Brother Patrolman John Neill   HERE
1956 - 27 May 1956 - We lost our Brother Police Lieutenant William P. Thompson   HERE  
1956 - 29 September 1956 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John R. Phelan   HERE  
1956 - 11 December 1956, We lost our Brother, Police Sgt. Edward M. Sawyer  HERE 
1957 - 27 September 1957 - We lost our Brother Police Sergeant Charles E Gross HERE
1957 - 09 October 1957 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John F. Andrews   HERE
1958 - 19 September 1958 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert K. Nelson   HERE
1959 - 11 January 1959 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard H. Duvall, Jr.   HERE
1960 - 16 November 1960 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Warren V. Eckert   HERE
1961 - 08 Oct 1961 - We lost our Brother Patrolman John R Falconer   HERE
1962 - 07 April, 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry Smith, Jr.   HERE
1962 - 26 May 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard D. Seebo    HERE
1962 - 02 July 1962 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward J. Kowalewski   HERE
1964 - 10 January 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Francis R. Stransky   HERE
1964 - 06 February 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Claude J. Profili   HERE
1964 - 11 September 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter Patrick Matthys   HERE 
1964 - 15 October 1964 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Teddy L. Bafford   HERE
1964 - 25 December 1964 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Jack Lee Cooper  HERE
1965 - 20 January 1965 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Charles R. Ernest  HERE
1965 - 22 July 1965 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert Henry Kuhn  HERE
1966 - 24 August 1946 - We lost our Brother Honorary Police Officer Simon Fried   HERE
1967 - 25 January 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Baumer   HERE
1967 - 10 February 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frederick K. Kontner  HERE
1967 - 21 August 1967 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John C. Williams  HERE
1968 - 18 April 1968 - We lost our Brother Detective Richard F. Bosak   HERE
1968 - 12 November 1968 We lost our Brother Sergeant Frant Ankrom   HERE
1969 - 20 June 1969 - We lost our Brother William Wilder   HERE
1970 - 16 January 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer George F. Heim  HERE
1970 - 24 March 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Henry M. Mickey  HERE
1970 - 24 April 1970 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Donald W. Sager  HERE
1971 - 12 June 1971 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Carl Peterson, Jr.   HERE
1971 - 01 August 1971 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Martin Webb  HERE
1971 - In June of 1971 - We had our first K9 Dog killed in the Line of Duty. "Shane" RIP  HERE  
1972 - 26 July 1972 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Lorenzo Arnest Gray   HERE
1973 - 01 December 1973 - We lost our Brother Detective Wiley M. Owens   HERE
1973 - 29 March 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert M. Hurley   HERE
1973 - 06 April 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Norman Frederick Buchman  HERE  
1973 - 22 September 1973 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Calvin M. Rodwell   HERE
1974 - 05 May 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Frank Warren Whitby, Jr.   HERE
1974 - 01 August 1974 - We lost our Brother Det Sgt Frank William Grunder, Jr.   HERE
1974 - 15 August 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Milton I. Spell    HERE
1974 - 10 December 1974 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Martin Joseph Greiner  HERE  
1975 - 13 September 1975 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edward S. Sherman   HERE
1975 - 27 October 1975 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Timothy B. Ridenour   HERE
1976 - 16 April 1976 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jimmy Dale Halcomb   HERE
1978 - 15 February 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Edgar J. Rumpf    HERE
1978 - 23 April 1978 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Robert John Barlow    HERE
1978 - 27 October 1978 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Nelson F. Bell, Jr.   HERE
1979 - 02 March 1979 - We lost our Brother Police Officer John H. Spencer   HERE
1979 - 19 August 1979 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William D. Albers   HERE
1981 - 20 July 1981 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Ronald L. Tracey    HERE
1984 - 28 June 1984 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Johnny LaGrone   HERE
1984 - 03 December 1984 - We lost our Brother Detective Marcellus Ward    HERE
1985 - 08 October 1985 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard J. Lear    HERE
1985 - 18 November 1985 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Vincent J. Adolfo   HERE
1986 - 21 July 1986 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Richard Thomas Miller   HERE
1986 - 20 September 1986 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Robert Alexander   HERE
1989 - 10 October 1989 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William J. Martin   HERE
1992 - 21 September 1992 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Ira Neil Weiner   HERE   
1993 - 26 May 1993 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Herman A. Jones, Sr.   HERE
1994 - 04 Aug 1994 - Police Horse dies in the line of duty. "Bozman".    HERE
1994 - 24 June 1994 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Gerald M. Arminger     HERE
1994 - 14 October 1994 - We lost our Brother Sergeant Richard Harris    HERE
1997 - 07 May 1997 - We lost our Brother Lieutenant Owen Eugene Sweeney, Jr.   HERE
1998 - 30 October 1998 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Harold Jerome Carey   HERE
1998 - 04 November 1998 - We lost our Brother Flight Officer Barry Winston Wood   HERE
1999 - 15 July 1999 - We lost our Brother P/O Martin 'Marty' Domzalski  HERE
2000 - 08 March, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Jamie Allen Roussey   HERE
2000 - 21 April, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Kevon Malik Gavin   HERE
2000 - 14 October, 2000 - We lost our Brother Sergeant John  David Platt     HERE
2000 - 14 October, 2000 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Kevin Joseph McCarthy      HERE
2001 - 12 March, 2001 - We lost our Brother Agent Michael Joseph Cowdery, Jr.     HERE
2002 - 22 August, 2002 - We lost our Sister Police Officer Crystal Deneen Sheffield     HERE
2002 - 23 November, 2002 - We lost our Brother Detective Thomas G. Newman     HERE
2003 - 17 April 2003 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Walter A Taylor Jr      HERE
2004 - 03 July 2004 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Brian Donte Winder       HERE
2006 - 19 May, 2006 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Anthony A. Byrd     HERE
2007 - 09 January 2007 - We lost our Brother Detective Troy Lamont Chesley, Sr.     HERE
2009 - 19 Nov 2009 - We lost our Brother Special Agent Samuel Hicks       HERE
2010 - 27 September 2010 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Earl Fowler, III     HERE  
2010 - 16 October 2010 - We lost our Brother Detective Brian Stevenson       HERE  
2010 - 20 October 2010 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Thomas Russell Portz, Jr.     HERE
2011 - 09 January 2011 - We lost our Brother Police Officer William Henry Torbit, Jr.     HERE
2012 - 29 August 2012 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Forrest "Dino" Taylor     HERE
2013 - 10 July 2013 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Shane Volk     HERE  
2014 - 14 December 2009, We lost our Brother Officer Robert W. Peregoy   HERE
2015 - 09 January, 2015 - We lost our Brother Police Officer Craig Chandler      HERE  
2017 - 16 November 2017 - We lost our Brother Police Detective Sean M. Suiter     HERE  
2019 - 09 September 2019 - We lost our Brother Police Officer James Tolson 
2021 - 23 Dec 2021 - We lost our Sister Police Officer Keona Holley     HERE  
2023 - 13 Dec 2023 - We lost our Brother Motors Officer Daoud Mingo  HERE 

The Unseen Heroes: Recognizing Baltimore’s Fallen Officers

In a quiet section of the Baltimore Police Department’s records, a list of 136 names resides. These are the officers who have fallen in the line of duty, their sacrifices officially recognized, and their stories etched into the city’s history. However, there is another list, one that tells a different story. This list, compiled by diligent active and retired police historians, includes an additional 85 names, totaling 221 fallen officers. This larger list includes officers who passed away due to on-the-job injuries or health issues related to their service, their stories largely untold.

Historically, certain types of deaths, such as heart attacks in the line of duty or deaths that occurred years after an injury, were not classified as line-of-duty deaths. However, a group of dedicated historians and the local Baltimore Police Historical Society have taken a broader view. They argue that if an officer’s life was shortened even by a day due to a job-related injury, that death should be considered a line-of-duty death.

While these officers may not receive all the benefits typically given to Baltimore’s fallen officers, many of their families are seeking recognition. Most of the benefits, such as a hero’s funeral or certain financial benefits, are long gone. Financial benefits for fallen officers weren’t available until the 1980s, and it’s too late for many to collect them.

Local historians, Kenny Driscoll and Bobby Brown, have taken up the mantle of ensuring these officers are not forgotten. Through their history site, they post the names of these officers and provide a memorial on the anniversary of each of their passings. This recognition, though small, means a great deal to the families who have already lost so much. They simply want their loved ones’ stories to be told, and Kenny and Bobby are doing all they can to ensure that.

This work is time-consuming, involving hours of combing through old newspaper archives. But both Kenny and Bobby say it is a valuable service to the community and a fitting tribute to those who served and those who gave. It reminds us that every officer who puts on the uniform is a hero, whether their name is on the official list or not. By the way, Kenny told us his list is as official as any list and that many of the names he and Bobby found have been presented to the Officer Down Memorial Page. They investigate the names provided by Kenny, so only names they feel are a result of a line of duty injury/illness are listed. When we check their count, they have 146 listed as fallen officers for the city of Baltimore’s police and 1 listed as Baltimore Park Police. Ken adopted the Park officer because in 1961, Baltimore Park Police rolled into Baltimore City police, and if we don’t add him to our list, he will be forgotten. So, ODM.org technically has 147 fallen Baltimore officers. That is 11 more than Baltimore police list. It is a testament to the unseen heroes of Baltimore, their sacrifices, and the families they left behind.

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