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Police Officer

Henry Daniel Berry

Philadelphia Police Department — Philadelphia, PA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch March 30, 1938

Age 43

Tour of Duty 11 yrs

Badge 4587

The Vigil Panel 74 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 377

Incident

Police Officer Henry Berry died from gunshot wounds suffered thirteen days before when he was shot by a man he had caught trying to rob a florist shop at 8th Street and Parrish Street. A suspect was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. He was executed on February 26, 1940. Officer Berry was a U.S. Army veteran of WWI and had served with the Philadelphia Police Department for 11 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his three children.

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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.
Police Officer Berry gave the Philadelphia Police Department 11 years.
Thank you for your service to the Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

Platform Identity ppd.philadelphia.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 30, 1938

Tour of Duty 11 yrs

Age 43

Badge Number 4587

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Henry Daniel Berry served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Henry Daniel Berry 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 PA, 597 of 1,261 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.3% of this state's fallen. That is 47.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Philadelphia Police Department, 162 of 378 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.9% of this agency's fallen.

Philadelphia Police Department

162

of 378 officers

42.9% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious