Roll of Honor
Harry V. Frampton
Incident
Location: Ohio Weapon: Handgun Offender: Not available
Railroad Detective Harry Frampton was shot and killed in Cleveland, Ohio while patrolling the railroad yards near New Scranton Road.
He had advised other railroad employees that he had seen a prowler in the railroad yard earlier and went out to search for him. He was shot several minutes later as he shined his flashlight into a boxcar. The subject fled the scene, and it is not known if he was ever arrested.
Detective Frampton had served with the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Police Department for approximately three years. He was a widower and survived by two children. His wife passed away from influenza only a few months before his murder.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Railroad Detective Frampton gave the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad Police Department 3 years.
Thank you for your service to the Brewster community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Railroad Detective Frampton.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Railroad Detective Harry V. Frampton 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 WA, 187 of 340 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 55% of this state's fallen. That is 55 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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