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Patrolman

Antonio Guzman Jr.

Houston Police Department — Houston, TX

Veteran → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch January 9, 1973

Age 31

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Badge 1111

The Vigil Panel 111 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 116

Incident

Patrolman Antonio Guzman was shot and killed near the intersection of Telephone Road and Drouet Street. He and his partner stopped a pickup truck for driving with no tail lights. While searching the truck, a box of ammunition was found, and the patrolmen asked the driver to exit the vehicle. When the officers tried to search the driver, the driver pulled out a .25 caliber handgun and shot Patrolman Guzman in the chest. He and his partner were able to return fire, striking the suspect four times and critically wounding him. He died a few months later. Patrolman Guzman was a United States Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Houston Police Department for two years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and son.

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Tributes

I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Patrolman Guzman gave the Houston Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Houston community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Houston Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Houston, Harris County, TX

Platform Identity hpd.harris.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 9, 1973

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Age 31

Badge Number 1111

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Antonio Guzman Jr. served in the U.S. Army (1960â1967) before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Antonio Guzman Jr. is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.

In TX, 1,461 of 2,422 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.3% of this state's fallen. That is 60.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Houston Police Department, 84 of 117 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 71.8% of this agency's fallen.

Houston Police Department

of 117 officers

71.8% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,461

of 2,422 officers

60.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious