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Corporal

David Scott Gogian

Topeka Police Department — Topeka, KS

Veteran → Veteran → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch December 16, 2012

Age 50

Tour of Duty 8 yrs 3 mo

Badge 408

The Vigil Panel 162 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 9

Incident

Corporal David Gogian and Police Officer Jeff Atherly were shot and killed while checking on a suspicious vehicle in a grocery store parking lot, at 1400 SW Huntoon Street, shortly after 6:00 pm.

Several minutes after making contact with the multiple subjects in the vehicle one them opened fire, fatally wounding Officer Atherly and Corporal Gogian. A third officer on the scene was not wounded. The subject who opened fire fled in the vehicle. He was located in a home on SW Western where he barricaded himself for several hours. He was eventually shot and killed after exiting the home while carrying a firearm.

Corproal Gogian was a U.S. military veteran and had served with the Topeka Police Department for eight years.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife and four 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.
Corporal Gogian gave the Topeka Police Department 8 years.
Thank you for your service to the Topeka 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 Topeka Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Topeka, Shawnee County, KS

Platform Identity tpd.shawnee.ks.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 16, 2012

Tour of Duty 8 yrs 3 mo

Age 50

Badge Number 408

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

David Scott Gogian served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1981â1981) before joining law enforcement.

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Corporal David Scott Gogian 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 KS, 237 of 335 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 70.7% of this state's fallen. That is 70.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Topeka Police Department, 6 of 10 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.

Topeka Police Department

of 10 officers

60% Felonious

KS — Statewide

237

of 335 officers

70.7% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious