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Atlanta Police Department
Atlanta, GA

Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Mansel W. Rasbury
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, March 7, 1872
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAMounted Policeman Robert H. Goodson
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, May 26, 1891
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Robert Lee Albert
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, July 17, 1897
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Thomas J. Ponder
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, November 8, 1897
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Carl Mills
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, August 5, 1898
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Edward H. Debray
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, June 20, 1901
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Hugh Osburn
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, May 16, 1902
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Tom Grant
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, May 16, 1902
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Edward Crabtree
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, May 16, 1902
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Hans E. Drasbach
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, October 3, 1903
Cause of Death: Stabbed
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer James A. Manier
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, December 6, 1907
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPatrolman William E. Armistead
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, November 13, 1916
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Henry T. Adams
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, December 7, 1917
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Municipal Court, GADeputy Marshal Howell B. Parker
Atlanta Municipal Court, GA
EOW: Saturday, September 24, 1921
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GASpecial Officer James E. Travis
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, February 24, 1922
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Jonas Aiken
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, December 13, 1924
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPatrolman John E McDaniel
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, August 19, 1928
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer C. W. Crankshaw
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, February 2, 1930
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Aaron B. Roberts
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, June 18, 1930
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPatrolman William M. Higgins
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, January 23, 1931
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GADetective Frank C. Foster
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, March 16, 1932
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPatrolman Edward C. Robertson
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, August 1, 1932
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GADetective Samuel A. Smith
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, October 24, 1932
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer J. Harry McWilliams Sr.
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, November 13, 1946
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Marion H. Key
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, March 4, 1948
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer William M. Richards
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, December 2, 1952
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer William G. Turner
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, November 29, 1953
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Clyde L. Elsberry
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, July 19, 1955
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Fred E. Nunnally
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, February 11, 1956
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Gid Thomas Ward
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, June 19, 1957
Cause of Death: Struck by vehicle
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Charles J. Busby
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, August 28, 1959
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Hoyle W. Dye
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, November 9, 1960
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Claude Everett Mundy Jr.
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, January 5, 1961
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Joseph Farlin Porter
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, October 9, 1961
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Pearl Martin
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, December 15, 1961
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Charles B. Dickson
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, April 14, 1962
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Hiram B. Durrett
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, October 17, 1963
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Joe E. Phillips
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, May 10, 1966
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Homer Anthony Quave
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, September 19, 1966
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Michael L. Little
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, February 16, 1967
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GALieutenant Edwin Bryson Mitchell Jr.
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, May 17, 1967
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Kenneth E. Bell
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, April 4, 1968
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Thomas Ramsden III
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, October 26, 1968
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Donald Douglas Baty
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, June 3, 1970
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Billy Michael Kaylor
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, August 23, 1971
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer James Richard Greene
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, November 3, 1971
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer James Millard Cannon
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, June 17, 1973
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Larry Barkwell
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, June 19, 1973
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GADetective Clarence Edward Harris
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, October 21, 1973
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Henry Lee Jones
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, December 12, 1973
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Robert Michael Dale
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, April 4, 1974
Cause of Death: Gunfire (Accidental)
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Gregory Ray White
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, July 15, 1974
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GADetective Samuel Milton Guy
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, January 7, 1975
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Cled Neil Wingo
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, July 23, 1975
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GADetective Ernest Loyd Wilson
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Tuesday, April 27, 1976
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Barry Dean Melear
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, September 23, 1977
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer James G. Crawford
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, January 14, 1978
Cause of Death: Automobile accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Frank Robert Schlatt
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, May 13, 1978
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Roy Watson Dooley
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, December 6, 1979
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Alfred Morris Johnson Jr.
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, February 16, 1980
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GASergeant James E. Richardson Jr.
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, July 19, 1980
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Philip Bruce Mathis
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, April 26, 1985
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GASergeant Willie Donald Cameron
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, February 6, 1987
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Gregory Lavance Davis
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, August 26, 1988
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Layne Bruce Cook
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, January 27, 1989
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Joseph Emmanuel Davis
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, June 7, 1989
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Niles Frederick Johantgen
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, December 21, 1991
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Randy John Schipani
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, May 8, 1992
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer Wyley Hart Shepherd
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, January 14, 1994
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAOfficer George Dawson
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Friday, February 25, 1994
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Dennis Larry Carder
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, May 9, 1996
Cause of Death: Fall
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer John Richard Sowa
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, October 12, 1997
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Russell Travis (Rusty) Stalnaker
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GASergeant Melvin Grigley
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Sunday, July 2, 2000
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Allen Brad Rogers
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Monday, July 24, 2000
Cause of Death: Vehicular assault
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAInvestigator Sherry Elizabeth Lyons-Williams
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Wednesday, April 4, 2001
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Mark Anthony Cross
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Saturday, April 23, 2005
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Patch image: Atlanta Police Department, GAPolice Officer Peter William Faatz
Atlanta Police Department, GA
EOW: Thursday, August 3, 2006
Cause of Death: Automobile accident


Total Line of Duty Deaths: 78

Automobile accident: 8
Fall: 1
Gunfire: 49
Gunfire (Accidental): 2
Motorcycle accident: 13
Stabbed: 1
Struck by vehicle: 1
Vehicular assault: 3

The Atlanta Police Department is comprised of the following independent agencies and/or components (Note: Some of the agencies and/or components no longer exist):

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