Edwin Bryson Mitchell Jr.

Atlanta Police Department — Atlanta, GA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch May 17, 1967

Age 26

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 87

Incident

Lieutenant Edwin Mitchell was shot and killed while investigating a burglary on Rawson Street, SW, in Atlanta at 4:20 a.m. He was shot and killed as he arrived on the scene, even before exiting his patrol car. He had parked beside a parked car. The suspect, sitting in the car, opened fire through Lieutenant Mitchell's driver's side window. Lieutenant Mitchell, shot in the head, was killed instantly. The suspect, 24, was found minutes later hiding in the attic of a nearby building. He had the murder weapon in his possession. Two weeks earlier, he escaped from the Oglethorpe County work camp, where he was serving a 13-year sentence for burglary and car theft. On June 21, 1967, he was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. On December 19, 1968, he was sentence was commuted to life. As of October 9, 1987, he was in prison. Lieutenant Mitchell was a United States Army veteran and had served with the Atlanta Police Department for five years.

Survivors

He was survived by his expectant wife and twin daughters.

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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 Mitchell gave the Atlanta Police Department 5 years.
Thank you for your service to the Atlanta 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 Atlanta Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Platform Identity apd.fulton.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 17, 1967

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

Age 26

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Edwin Bryson Mitchell Jr. served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Lieutenant Edwin Bryson Mitchell Jr. 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 GA, 548 of 904 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.6% of this state's fallen. That is 60.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Atlanta Police Department, 58 of 88 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 65.9% of this agency's fallen.

Atlanta Police Department

of 88 officers

65.9% Felonious

GA — Statewide

548

of 904 officers

60.6% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious