Benjamin Paul Carden

Beaufort County Sheriff's Office — Beaufort, SC

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch January 6, 1925

Age 25

Tour of Duty 6 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 4

Incident

Officer Benjamin Carden was shot and killed while attempting to serve an arrest warrant on a suspect at 5:00 p.m. near Seabrook. Officer Carden was shot at close range in the abdomen with a shotgun. His partner, who was around the back of the house, ran to the front and engaged in a gunfight with two fleeing suspects. The suspects, who were brothers, continued to fire at him even as he loaded Officer Carden's body into the car and then disappeared into the woods. One of the suspects was captured in Philadelphia in 1932. He was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. He died from an unknown disease in prison before the sentence could be carried out. The other suspect was captured in Cincinnati in 1939. He was tried in 1940, sentenced to death, and executed in the electric chair on August 20, 1941. Officer Carden was a United States Navy veteran and had served with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office for six months.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, child, parents, three brothers, and two sisters.

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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.
Officer Carden served with the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Beaufort 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 Beaufort County Sheriff's Office

Type Sheriff's Office

Location Beaufort, Beaufort County, SC

Platform Identity bcso.beaufort.sc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 6, 1925

Tour of Duty 6 mo

Age 25

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Military Service

Benjamin Paul Carden served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Benjamin Paul Carden 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 97,759 officers honored here.

In SC, 271 of 440 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.6% of this state's fallen. That is 61.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Beaufort County Sheriff's Office, 5 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Beaufort County Sheriff's Office

of 5 officers

100% Felonious

SC — Statewide

271

of 440 officers

61.6% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious