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Mellie McDaniel was on her way home from the grocery store, talking with her husband, Jackson County (FL) Sheriff John P. McDaniel, on her mobile phone. It was a little before 5 p.m. on January 30, 2007. As she pulled into her driveway, she suddenly became concerned; another car had pulled in behind her. She reported this suspicious activity to her husband, and then she let out a long scream. Sheriff McDaniel immediately radioed for officers in the area to respond to the scene. Within two minutes Deputy Harold Michael “Mike” Altman, 42, arrived at the Sheriff’s residence. He called in a Michigan license plate to the dispatcher and then was heard to say over the radio, “Get off me!” There was no further radio communication.
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Law enforcement service seemed to be in David Rich’s DNA. A 17-year veteran of the Indiana State Police himself, Master Trooper Rich’s father is a retired Indiana State Police trooper and a former two-term sheriff of Miami County, Indiana. His brother is an Indiana State Police captain. So when Trooper Rich, on his way home from work last July 5, spotted what appeared to be a stranded motorist, he did what came naturally: he stopped to help. Unbeknownst to Trooper Rich, the vehicle was stolen and the suspect was armed.
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Philadelphia Police Officer Charles “Chuck” Cassidy was determined not to let the street thugs take over his beloved city. He had seen more than his share of violence up close and personal. Last March, he and his partner chased down and arrested two armed felons just moments after they shot a man. More recently, on October 23, 2007, he responded to an armed robbery at a local café. The owner, Kelly McShain Tyree, had been tied up and left in the basement.
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Calvin W. Jenks told co-workers that he became a Tennessee State Trooper to follow in the footsteps of his step-grandfather, a retired lieutenant with the Tennessee Highway Patrol. By all accounts, he was an aggressive, hard-working trooper who loved his job and always had a smile on his face. On the night of January 6, 2007, Trooper Jenks pulled over two teenagers, ages 17 and 19, along a highway near Memphis. During the traffic stop he smelled marijuana from inside the vehicle.
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On November 24, 1917, a suspicious package had been left alongside the Italian Evangelical Church in downtown Milwaukee. A scrubwoman for the church had discovered it and a boy named Sam Mazzone was summoned to take it to the police station. The boy arrived with the package shortly after 7:00 PM. It was a Saturday evening and a group of detectives were filing out of roll call in the first floor assembly room. According to a police department report, “As detectives examined the package with a fury of haste, it exploded, immediately killing nine police officers.”
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Written by Craig W. Floyd
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Deputy Marion Eugene Wright II, 27, of the Berkeley County (SC) Sheriff's Department, was on his way home from work on the evening of November 19, 2002, when he found himself stalled in a traffic jam. As he creeped along, he spotted the problem-a woman was stranded on the side of the road with a flat tire. Without even thinking twice, Deputy Wright pulled over to assist the woman.
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Written by Cynthia Brown
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Cops are generally the kind of people who feel compelled to help others and serve their community as well as their nation. Salt Lake City Detective James Cawley was one of those special few. Det. Cawley made the ultimate sacrifice when he was killed in a firefight with enemy troops in Iraq. The 41-year-old reservist was a Platoon Sergeant with Company F of the 2nd Battalion 23rd Regiment Marines. The cop from Layton, Utah leaves behind a wife and two young children and the Cawley family now belongs to a group of other families in states across the country who have lost loved ones in the Persian Gulf.
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Written by Craig W. Floyd
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A Missouri state trooper was killed in a traffic crash on May 22, 2003. The crash occurred on the right-hand shoulder of eastbound Interstate 70 near the 47-mile marker. Trooper Michael L. Newton, 25, had stopped a vehicle for a traffic violation at approximately 6:54 a.m. Trooper Newton, and the driver of the vehicle he had stopped, were sitting in the patrol vehicle. At approximately 6:59 a.m. Troop A radio began receiving phone calls about a traffic crash at that location. An eastbound pickup pulling a flatbed trailer traveled onto the shoulder and struck the rear of Trooper Newton's patrol car.
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Written by Craig W. Floyd
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The Tucker Maximum Security Unit in Arkansas is a tough place to work and the segregation barracks within "Tucker Max" are about as dangerous as it gets in a correctional facility. These cells, known as the "tier," are reserved for inmates with enemies and are separated from the general population of the prison. Sergeant Scott Grimes was one of the officers working in "Tucker Max" on November 29, 1995. Sergeant Grimes and his fellow officers were conducting a shower call, where inmates are handcuffed and removed from their cell so they can be taken safely to the showers.
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Written by Craig W. Floyd
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Many have come to know it simply as the “Howard Johnson Tragedy.” Over a seven-day period beginning on December 31, 1972, a lone gunman
named Mark J. Essex waged war on the New Orleans Police Department and
many innocent civilians. The series of snipings and gun battles ended with five members of the
New Orleans P.D. killed. They were Alfred E. Harrell, Edwin Hosli Sr.,
Paul Persigo, Philip Coleman and Assistant Superintendent Louis J.
Sirgo. Essex was finally shot and killed on January 7, 1973, after being tracked down at the Downtown Howard Johnson’s hotel.
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