Charlie Williams Jr.

Corpus Christi Police Department — Corpus Christi, TX

COVID-19 → Illness

End of Watch July 13, 2020

Tour of Duty 35 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Senior Police Officer Chuck Williams died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 while on duty.

Officer Williams had served with the Corpus Christi Police Department for 35 years and was assigned to the Directed Patrol Division.

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.

Corrections agencies, in particular, suffered tremendous losses due to the constant and close proximity between the corrections officers and large inmate populations. Since March 2020, ODMP has verified that over 900 law enforcement officers have died as the result of a confirmed or presumed exposure while on duty and continues to work with hundreds of other agencies that have suffered a COVID-related death.

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

Senior Police Officer Charlie Williams Jr. died on July 13, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty.

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.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Senior Police Officer Williams gave the Corpus Christi Police Department 35 years.
Thank you for your service to the Corpus Christi community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Police Officer Williams.

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

Agency

Department Corpus Christi Police Department

Type Other

Location Corpus Christi, Nueces County, TX

Platform Identity ccpd.nueces.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 13, 2020

Tour of Duty 35 yrs

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

The Sacrifice · Illness

Charlie 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