Incident
Sergeant Charles Long was struck and killed by freight cars while inspecting cargo shipments in the rail yards in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sergeant Long had served with the Western Maryland Railway Police Department for 23 years.
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- September 9, 2026
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23 years. You could have gone home.
Sergeant Long gave the Western Maryland Railway Police Department 23 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Baltimore community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Long.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Sergeant Charles Monroe Long is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.
In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 37.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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