Correctional Officer

Robert D. Hurd

Felonious
End of Watch October 11, 1981
Age 41
Gender Male

Incident

Officer Hurd was stabbed to death by an inmate who was seeking revenge for a disciplinary report that Officer Hurd was about to file. The 25 year-old suspect, serving a 1977 life sentence for kidnapping, sodomy, robbery, and burglary, was convicted of Officer Hurd's murder and received another life sentence. In 1983 he was transferred to the Arizona State Penitentiary where on October 23, 1986, he stabbed another inmate to death.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Correctional Officer Hurd served with the Kansas Department of Corrections.
Thank you for your service to the people of Kansas. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Correctional Officer Hurd.

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

Agency

Type Corrections
Location Topeka, Shawnee County, KS
Platform Identity kanscorr.shawnee.ks.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 11, 1981
Age 41
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Edged weapon

The Sacrifice · Felonious

Robert is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% 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 1981, 126 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 39th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Robert was 41. Of the 14,219 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38.

Age at death
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When

October holds 7.9% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Sundays: 15.2%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was edged weapon, in 2.2% of these deaths.

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His people

Kansas Department of Corrections has 12 officers remembered here, Robert among them.

Correctional Officer Robert D. Hurd

Kansas Department of Corrections · End of Watch October 11, 1981

Where the Name Is Cut

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 64-E

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