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Sergeant

Billy Randolph

Fort Worth Police Department — Fort Worth, TX

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch August 12, 2024

Age 56

Tour of Duty 29 yrs

Badge 2797

The Vigil Panel 183 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 58

Incident

Sergeant Billy Randolph was struck and killed at a crash scene on Interstate 35 near Sycamore School Road at 5:30 a.m.

A tractor-trailer collided with a guardrail and caught fire. During the clean-up, Sergeant Randolph was standing outside his patrol vehicle when a vehicle drove the wrong way through barricades and struck him. He was transported to John Peter Smith Hospital, where he died from his injuries.

The driver continued driving, and when she stopped her car, she fled on foot. She was apprehended and charged with intoxication manslaughter. In 2026, she pleaded guilty to intoxicated manslaughter leading to the death of a peace officer and was sentenced to life in prison in 2026. She will be eligible for parole in 2056.

Sergeant Randolph was a United States Air Force veteran and had served with the Fort Worth Police Department for 29 years.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife and children.

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Last updated: August 2, 2026

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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.
Sergeant Randolph gave the Fort Worth Police Department 29 years.
Thank you for your service to the Fort Worth community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Fort Worth Police Department

Type Other

Location Fort Worth, TX

Platform Identity fwpd.tarrant.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 12, 2024

Tour of Duty 29 yrs

Age 56

Badge Number 2797

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Weapon Automobile; Alcohol involved

Military Service

Billy Randolph served in the U.S. Air Force before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Billy Randolph is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In TX, 657 of 2,421 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.1% of this state's fallen. That is 27.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Fort Worth Police Department, 19 of 59 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.2% of this agency's fallen.

Fort Worth Police Department

of 59 officers

32.2% Accident

TX — Statewide

657

of 2,421 officers

27.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Accident