Carl W. Setser

Cincinnati Police Department — Cincinnati, OH

Veteran → Cardiac

End of Watch August 13, 1971

Age 40

Tour of Duty 19 yrs

Badge P579

The Vigil Panel 108 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 105

Incident

Detective Carl Setser suffered a fatal heart attack after serving a warrant on a bank robbery suspect. On August 11, 1971, the Cincinnati weather was muggy and humid when Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents, Detective Setser, and two other officers moved heavy appliances while searching a bank robbery suspect's apartment. After compiling evidence, Detective Setser carried heavy boxes of evidence to his patrol car. Upon returning to the Criminal Investigation Section with boxes in the truck and the subject in the back seat, Detective Setser and his partner pushed a vehicle out of a double parking space. When Detective Setser reached the 6th-story Robbery Squad Office, he complained of not feeling well. Despite not feeling well, Detective Setser went to work the next day. That night, he was rushed to Bethesda Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival. Detective Setser was a United States Navy Reserve veteran and had served with the Cincinnati Police Department for 19 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, seven children, his mother, and a brother.

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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.
Detective Setser gave the Cincinnati Police Department 19 years.
Thank you for your service to the Cincinnati 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 Cincinnati Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Cincinnati, Hamilton County, OH

Platform Identity cincpd.hamilton.oh.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 13, 1971

Tour of Duty 19 yrs

Age 40

Badge Number P579

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Military Service

Carl W. Setser served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Detective Carl W. Setser is one of 1 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In OH, 43 of 991 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 4.3% of this state's fallen. That is 4.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Cincinnati Police Department, 4 of 106 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 3.8% of this agency's fallen.

Cincinnati Police Department

of 106 officers

3.8% Cardiac

OH — Statewide

of 991 officers

4.3% Cardiac

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Cardiac