Rodrick L. Rodgers
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Corrections Officer

Rodrick L. Rodgers

Illness
End of Watch November 11, 2020
Age 45
Tour of Duty 10 yrs
The Vigil Panel 173 ›
Gender Male

Incident

Corrections Officer Rodrick Rodgers died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 during an outbreak among employees and inmates at the Eastham Unit in Lovelady, Texas.

Officer Rodgers had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 10 years.

Beginning in early 2020, thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders throughout the country began to contract COVID-19 during the worldwide pandemic. Due to the nature of their job, law enforcement officers were required to work and interact with the community even as the majority of the country was self-quarantined. As a result, hundreds of officers died from COVID-related illnesses and other complications.

Visit ODMP's COVID-19 memorial listing every officer who has died as a result of a confirmed or presumed exposure.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Corrections Officer Rodrick L. Rodgers died on November 11, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 45.

He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 55 at Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division.

Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.

Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.

In Our Keeping

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The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Corrections Officer Rodgers gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer Rodgers.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Corrections
Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX
Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 11, 2020
Tour of Duty 10 yrs
Age 45
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Rodrick is one of 2,026 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,543 remembered there.

33,910 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2020, 346 officers in the United States were lost to illness, the 2nd heaviest of 108 years on record. The heaviest was 2021, with 564.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Rodrick was 45. Of the 1,994 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Rodrick had served 10 years; the middle length of service was 20 years.

Age at death
Where he stood among them
Age by years of service
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When

November holds 7.8% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 15%. Wednesdays: 13.9%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,543 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division has at least 120 officers remembered here, Rodrick among them.

Across the years
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Where

Corrections Officer Rodrick L. Rodgers

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division · End of Watch November 11, 2020

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 58-W

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