Delmar E. Stone

New Orleans Police Department — New Orleans, LA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch June 26, 1968

Age 32

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

The Vigil Panel 104 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 127

Incident

Patrolman Delmar Stone was killed in a motorcycle crash while on duty. His motorcycle was struck by a delivery truck that he was attempting to stop. Patrolman Stone fell and was run over by the rear wheels of the vehicle. He was taken to a hospital where he died later that day due to a head injury from the fall. Patrolman Stone's kidneys were transplanted into a 15-year-old boy who had been awaiting a transplant for eight months. Patrolman Stone was a U.S. Navy veteran and had served with the New Orleans Police Department for seven years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and six children.

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Added to badge.nw: August 2, 2026
Last updated: August 2, 2026

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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.
Patrolman Stone gave the New Orleans Police Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the New Orleans 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 New Orleans Police Department

Type Police Department

Location New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Platform Identity nopd.orleans.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 26, 1968

Tour of Duty 7 yrs

Age 32

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Delmar E. Stone served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Delmar E. Stone is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In LA, 180 of 595 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.3% of this state's fallen. That is 30.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At New Orleans Police Department, 35 of 128 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.3% of this agency's fallen.

New Orleans Police Department

of 128 officers

27.3% Accident

LA — Statewide

180

of 595 officers

30.3% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident