Ernest Calvillo

Pima County Sheriff's Department — Tucson, AZ

Veteran → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 21, 1983

Age 37

Tour of Duty 10 yrs 6 mo

Badge 233

The Vigil Panel 127 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 10

Incident

Deputy Ernest Calvillo was shot and killed while attempting to break up a fight at a local bar. He and another deputy were working an off-duty security detail at a local bar when a patron informed the officers that there was a fight and one of the men was in the parking lot with a gun. The officers located the subject holding a rifle and told him to leave. The subject left the scene and then returned and began speaking with the officers again. The subject's brother then pulled up and fired at the deputies, striking Deputy Calvillo. The other deputy returned fire, killing the subject who fired the weapon. Deputy Calvillo was a United States Air Force Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Pima County Sheriff's Department for just under 10.5 years. He was survived by his wife, two daughters,

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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.
Deputy Sheriff Calvillo gave the Pima County Sheriff's Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Tucson 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 Pima County Sheriff's Department

Type Sheriff's Office

Location Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Platform Identity pcso.pima.az.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 21, 1983

Tour of Duty 10 yrs 6 mo

Age 37

Badge Number 233

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Ernest Calvillo served in the U.S. Air Force (1965â1966) before joining law enforcement.

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Deputy Sheriff Ernest Calvillo 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 97,772 officers honored here.

In AZ, 204 of 330 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.8% of this state's fallen. That is 61.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Pima County Sheriff's Department, 4 of 11 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 36.4% of this agency's fallen.

Pima County Sheriff's Department

of 11 officers

36.4% Felonious

AZ — Statewide

204

of 330 officers

61.8% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious