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Shad Eugene Hammond
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Sergeant

Shad Eugene Hammond

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division — Huntsville, TX
COVID-19 → Illness
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End of Watch September 13, 2021
Age 47
Tour of Duty 26 yrs
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Gender Male
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Incident

Sergeant Shad Hammond died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 while working a the Clemens Correctional Institution at 11034 Hwy 36 in Brazoria.

Sergeant Hammond had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 26 years.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Sergeant Shad Eugene Hammond died on September 13, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 47.

He is one of 885 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.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife and two children.

In Our Keeping

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Sergeant Hammond gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 26 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Hammond.

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

Agency

Department Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division
Type Corrections
Location Huntsville, Walker County, TX
Platform Identity tdcjcidcorr.walker.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 13, 2021
Tour of Duty 26 yrs
Age 47
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness
Cause Detail COVID19

The Sacrifice · Illness

Shad 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 2021, 564 officers in the United States were lost to illness, more than in any other year.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Shad was 47. 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. Shad had served 26 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

September holds 11.2% of these deaths in the United States; October holds the most, 14.9%. Mondays: 14.2%.

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

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

Across the years
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Where

Sergeant Shad Eugene Hammond

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division · End of Watch September 13, 2021

Where the Name Is Cut

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Also Remembered

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