Curtis Jordan

Metro Nashville Police Department — Nashville, TN

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch January 13, 1976

Age 24

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 19

Incident

Officer Jordan was stabbed to death when he and his partner responded to a domestic dispute call. While talking with the male suspect the man was able to pull out a knife and stabbed him. The suspect, 20, was convicted of Officer Jordan's murder and sentenced to 15 years. On June 14, 1980, he was found dead in his prison cell. Another inmate had stabbed him 20 times. Officer Jordan had been with the agency for four years.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Officer Jordan gave the Metro Nashville Police Department 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Nashville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Officer Jordan.

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

Agency

Department Metro Nashville Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Nashville, Davidson County, TN

Platform Identity mnpd.davidson.tn.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 13, 1976

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

Age 24

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Edged weapon

Military Service

Curtis Jordan served in the U.S. Army (1968â1970) before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Curtis Jordan 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 TN, 498 of 769 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 64.8% of this state's fallen. That is 64.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Metro Nashville Police Department, 12 of 20 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.

Metro Nashville Police Department

of 20 officers

60% Felonious

TN — Statewide

498

of 769 officers

64.8% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious