Roll of Honor
Incident
Police Officer Chris Wilson was shot and killed, assisting officers from the San Diego County Probation Department and United States Marshals Service conducting a compliance check at an apartment complex on the 400 block of South Meadowbrook Drive.
The probation officers and deputy marshals had initially gone to the location and knocked on the apartment door. A man opened it and suddenly slammed it shut when he saw the officers, who then kicked the door in and arrested the subject. The officers then called the San Diego Police Department for assistance after observing another occupant run into a back bedroom.
Officer Wilson and other officers, including a K9, responded to the scene and began searching the apartment when someone opened fire from behind a closed bedroom door. Officer Wilson was struck and fatally wounded, and the K9 was also wounded. Despite being under fire, two other officers were able to pull him from the apartment. He was transported to Scripps Memorial Hospital where he passed away early the following morning.
A man and woman in the bedroom were found dead the following morning at the end of the ensuing standoff. It was determined that the suspect committed suicide.
Officer Wilson had served with the San Diego Police Department for 17 years and was assigned to the Southeastern Division.
Survivors
He is survived by his two children.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Officer Wilson gave the San Diego Police Department 17 years.
Thank you for your service to the San Diego community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Wilson.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Officer Christopher Alan Wilson 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 CA, 974 of 1,837 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53% of this state's fallen. That is 53 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At San Diego Police Department, 27 of 38 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 71.1% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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How Christopher Alan Wilson Compares
When Felonious Deaths Occur
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Weapons Used Against Officers
Most common weapons in felonious officer deaths. Christopher Alan Wilson was killed by gun; unknown type.
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