Frederick Booth

Jackson Police Department — Jackson, MI

Felonious

End of Watch March 19, 1906

Age 35

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Sergeant Frederick Booth was shot and killed while attempting to arrest three suspects for robbing a post office in a nearby town the previous night. As he and citizens attempted to arrest the men one of them produced a .38 caliber revolver and shot Sergeant Booth. All three suspects were apprehended a short time later. The killer was convicted of second degree murder and sentenced to life. The other two were sentenced to 7 to 15 years. On July 25, 1919, one of the two was shot and killed in Toledo, Ohio, after attacking a taxi driver. The killer was released from prison on May 15, 1921. Six months later he was arrested in Detroit and charged with the attempted robbery of a bank in Lamb. In 1885 he and two other men were acquitted of a murder in Michigan. The jurors were horrified and in much doubt about their decision when lightning hit the court house at the exact same time the verdict was read.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Sergeant Booth served with the Jackson Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Jackson community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Booth.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Jackson Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Jackson, Jackson County, MI

Platform Identity jpd.jackson.mi.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 19, 1906

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Sergeant Frederick Booth 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 MI, 426 of 719 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 59.2% of this state's fallen. That is 59.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Jackson Police Department, 5 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Jackson Police Department

of 5 officers

100% Felonious

MI — Statewide

426

of 719 officers

59.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious