Roll of Honor
Incident
Private Frank Schmid succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained four years earlier in Fort Bend County.
He and several other rangers from Company D had been sent there to attempt to quell political unrest between two political parties that involved several assassinations and other violence. The sheriff of the county was the leader of one of the political parties, and on August 16, 1889, he lead a group of men in a shootout with the other party.
Private Schmid and two other rangers attempted to intervene and got caught in the crossfire. Private Schmid was shot in the leg and was also struck in the abdomen, but the abdomen shot did not penetrate his skin. Fort Bend County Sheriff Tom Garvey, his uncle, the former sheriff, a political rival, as well as an innocent bystander were killed. Private Schmid was rescued from the scene and put under a doctor's care, where he remained seriously ill. He recovered enough to return to a clerical position in 1892 but died the following year.
At the time Private Schmind was wounded, he had only been with the Texas Rangers for three years.
He was buried in the Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, MO.
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133 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Private Schmid gave the Texas Rangers 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the Austin community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Private Frank Louis Schmid 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 97,784 officers honored here.
In TX, 1,461 of 2,422 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 Texas Rangers, 104 of 122 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 85.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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When Felonious Deaths Occur
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Weapons Used Against Officers
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