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Officer

Howard Kenton Hicks

Dallas Police Department — Dallas, TX

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch June 23, 1972

Age 26

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

Badge 2374

The Vigil Panel 110 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 94

Incident

Officer Howard Hicks succumbed to gunshot wounds received four years earlier when he stopped a man for DUI. He was off duty when he observed the suspected DUI driver South Central Expressway and Overton Road. When the man stopped in a parking lot, in the 3200 block of Southern Oaks Boulevard, Officer Hicks approached him, showed his badge, and told the man he was under arrest. The man pulled out a gun and shot Officer Hicks in the neck, causing paralysis. Officer Hicks remained a quadriplegic until his death four years later. Officer Hicks was able to identify the shooter, and he was sentenced to 25 years for assault to murder a police officer. Officer Hicks was a U.S Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Dallas Police Department for one year.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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Last updated: August 2, 2026

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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.
Officer Hicks gave the Dallas Police Department 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Dallas 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 Dallas Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Dallas, TX

Platform Identity dpd.dallas.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 23, 1972

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

Age 26

Badge Number 2374

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Howard Kenton Hicks served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Howard Kenton Hicks 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 TX, 1,460 of 2,421 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 Dallas Police Department, 55 of 95 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 57.9% of this agency's fallen.

Dallas Police Department

of 95 officers

57.9% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,460

of 2,421 officers

60.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious