Officer Jeff Lynn Azuar
Officer Azuar, 50, was shot and killed on April 12, 2000 after he and another officer attempted to serve an arrest warrant on Joseph Teitgen, 34, for failing to serve a 90-day jail sentence on a grand theft conviction and weapons violations. The incident occurred at 1430 hours at 2039 Tennessee Street. Azuar received the […]
Corporal Ferris Edward Catoe
Corporal Catoe, 36, served the Camden Police Department for 8 years in South Carolina. He was killed on July 10, 2000 after being involved in an automobile accident. Corporal Catoe’s cruiser, a 1994 Ford Taurus, broad sided a truck which had entered an intersection after running a stop sign. He was transported to a local […]
Senior Constable Norman James Watt
He was left to die alone for three hours before police could reach Constable Watt after having commandeered a heavily armored vehicle from Rockhampton jail was summoned to recover his body. Watt was pronounced dead at 3.47am on July 21. The suspect, Cooper Alton Downs, 58, an air force officer, was hiding in bushes in […]
Officer Justin Thomas Cain
Patrolman Cain, 25, succumbed to injuries sustained five months earlier when his patrol car struck a concrete pylon and a tree. He died on July 23, 2000. He was on a lunch break at the time when his vehicle accelerated, for unknown reasons, through a shopping center parking lot and struck the pylon. Patrolman Cain […]
Officer John A. Ayello
Officer Ayello, 53, died September 8, 2000 at approximately 2100 hours when he suffered a heart attack while making an arrest in taking a violent subject into custody. Officer Ayello and another officer had responded to a domestic disturbance call involving a suspect with warrants. As the suspect was being handcuffed, Officer Ayello suffered the […]
Corporal Phillip Charles Anderson
Corporal Phillip Anderson, 23, and Corporal Moulson, 30, were both canine officers shot and killed on January 3, 2001 while they were serving a narcotics search warrant at the home on a suspected drug dealer at 8:30 p.m. Both deputy canine officers, who were wearing bulletproof vests at the time. The officers took positions outside […]
Corporal James Brian Moulson
The officers took positions outside Williams’ home, preparing to serve the warrant. Corporal Moulson knocked on the door and announced the service of the warrant. When no response came, Corporal Moulson rammed the door. Corporal Anderson entered first and was met with gunfire from the suspect inside who shot Corporal Anderson in the head at […]
Deputy William Robert Hunter
Deputy William R. Hunter, 26, and Lieutenant Leonard B. Estes, 61, were ambushed and fatally wounded on, July 26, 2001, as they entered a cabin in the Inskip area of Paradise ridge in California and were met with a barrage of gunfire. Hunter died instantly. Estes returned fire and fatally wounded the suspect, Richard Gerald […]
Deputy Kody Hellyer Snodgrass
Deputy Kody Snodgrass, age 24, was a Deputy for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office and handled police bloodhounds for the department when he was killed in a motorcycle accident, while off duty, on October 17, 2001. The parents of Kody Snodgrass, Duke and Angie Snodgrass, are the founders of the Kody Snodgrass Memorial Foundation Inc. […]
Trooper Lloyd Aragon
Trooper Aragon, 37, was struck by a suspect’s vehicle and killed on August 1, 2001 while laying stop sticks at approximately 0730 hours attempting to apprehend a suspect driving a stolen vehicle during a pursuit on I-40 near Grants, New Mexico. The incident started when two brothers went to the Grants Wal-Mart Super center about 7 a.m. and allegedly […]
