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Keith D. Williams Sr.
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Senior Police Officer

Keith D. Williams Sr.

Metropolitan Police Department — Washington, DC
COVID-19 → Illness
United States flag District of Columbia flag
End of Watch June 4, 2020
Age 53
Tour of Duty 30 yrs
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Gender Male
Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Also Remembered Department 130

Incident

Senior Police Officer Keith Williams died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.

Officer Williams had served with the Metropolitan Police Department for 30 years and was assigned to the School Safety Division in the Third District.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Senior Police Officer Keith D. Williams Sr. died on June 4, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 53.

He is one of 885 officers honored here.

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.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, four children, and granddaughter.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Senior Police Officer Williams gave the Metropolitan Police Department 30 years.
Thank you for your service to the Washington community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Police Officer Williams.

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

Agency

Department Metropolitan Police Department
Type Police Department
Location Washington, DC
Platform Identity mpdc.dc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 4, 2020
Tour of Duty 30 yrs
Age 53
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Keith is one of 2,028 officers lost to illness in the United States, 7.4% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 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

Keith was 53. Of the 1,996 lost to illness in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 42 and 58; the middle age was 51. Keith had served 30 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

June holds 4.9% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Thursdays: 15.7%.

By month
By day of the week
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How

Illness deaths account for 7.4% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the 3rd most common cause.

Every cause
Weapons recorded
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His people

Metropolitan Police Department has at least 120 officers remembered here, Keith among them.

Across the years
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Where

Senior Police Officer Keith D. Williams Sr.

Metropolitan Police Department · End of Watch June 4, 2020

Where the Name Is Cut

Also Remembered

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