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Policeman

Donald LeRoy Highley

Los Angeles Police Department — Los Angeles, CA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch February 10, 1968

Age 33

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

Badge 11859

The Vigil Panel 103 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 239

Incident

Policeman Donald Highley was struck and killed by a drunk driver while writing a ticket. He had completed the citation and was in the process of handing the citation to the driver when he was struck. The original driver receiving the traffic violation used the officer's radio to notify the agency of the incident. The 48-year-old drunken violator who fled was chased down and ran off the road by a tow-truck driver. The driver and his passenger held the suspect until police arrived and arrested him. The incident was the drunken driver's fourth DUI conviction. He received one year in the county jail. Policeman Highley was a U.S Navy veteran and had served with the Los Angeles Police Department for three years.

Survivors

He was 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.
Policeman Highley gave the Los Angeles Police Department 12 years.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles 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 Los Angeles Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Platform Identity lapd.losangeles.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 10, 1968

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

Age 33

Badge Number 11859

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Automobile

Military Service

Donald LeRoy Highley served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Policeman Donald LeRoy Highley 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 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 Los Angeles Police Department, 115 of 240 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.9% of this agency's fallen.

Los Angeles Police Department

115

of 240 officers

47.9% Felonious

CA — Statewide

974

of 1,837 officers

53% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious