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Officer

Donald Paul Tucker Sr.

Dallas Police Department — Dallas, TX

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch December 13, 1973

Age 40

Tour of Duty 18 yrs

Badge 1181

The Vigil Panel 113 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 94

Incident

Officer Donald Tucker was shot and killed while answering a disturbance call in the 3700 block of Valley Ridge Road. Upon his arrival the suspect opened fire with a .357 caliber revolver, fatally wounding Officer Tucker. The suspect attempted to shoot other people in the area but was apprehended. The suspect was sentenced to death but the sentence was commuted to life. He was subsequently released after serving only 30 years. Officer Tucker was a U.S Army veteran of the Korean war and had served with the Dallas Police Department for 18 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.
Officer Tucker gave the Dallas Police Department 18 years.
Thank you for your service to the Dallas 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 Dallas Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Dallas, TX

Platform Identity dpd.dallas.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 13, 1973

Tour of Duty 18 yrs

Age 40

Badge Number 1181

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Donald Paul Tucker Sr. served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Donald Paul Tucker Sr. 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 TX, 1,460 of 2,421 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.3% of this state's fallen. That is 60.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Dallas Police Department, 55 of 95 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 57.9% of this agency's fallen.

Dallas Police Department

of 95 officers

57.9% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,460

of 2,421 officers

60.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious