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Lieutenant

Daniel J. McCann

Philadelphia Police Department — Philadelphia, PA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 30, 1964

Age 37

Tour of Duty 14 yrs

Badge 135

The Vigil Panel 99 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 377

Incident

Lieutenant Daniel McCann was shot to death by an unruly woman he had ejected from a bar on 11th and Spruce Street in Center City. The woman, who had been creating a disturbance in the bar, pulled a revolver from her handbag and fired. The 31-year-old suspect was convicted of voluntary manslaughter on September 17, 1965, and sentenced to an indeterminate term in the State Industrial Institution for Women at Muncy. She was paroled on January 7, 1970. Lieutenant McCann was a United States Navy veteran of World War II and had served with the Philadelphia Police Department for 14 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three children.

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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.
Lieutenant McCann gave the Philadelphia Police Department 14 years.
Thank you for your service to the Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Platform Identity ppd.philadelphia.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 30, 1964

Tour of Duty 14 yrs

Age 37

Badge Number 135

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Daniel J. McCann served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Lieutenant Daniel J. McCann 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 PA, 597 of 1,261 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.3% of this state's fallen. That is 47.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Philadelphia Police Department, 162 of 378 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.9% of this agency's fallen.

Philadelphia Police Department

162

of 378 officers

42.9% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious