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Sergeant

Ira Parker

Inkster Police Department — Inkster, MI

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 10, 1987

Age 41

Tour of Duty 15 yrs

Badge 8

The Vigil Panel 132 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 3

Incident

Sergeant Ira Parker, Officer Clay Hoover, and Officer Daniel Dubiel were shot and killed while attempting to serve a warrant for a bad check from a rental car agency on a 68-year-old woman and her three sons at a motel at 28525 Michigan Avenue. Officers Dubiel and Hoover entered the room first and were asked to help one of the sons who had recently had kidney dialysis treatment. Officer Dubiel then called Sergeant Parker to bring a summons instead of arresting the individuals, and the officers waited with the suspects. When Sergeant Parker arrived in the room the suspects opened fire killing the officers instantly. Before their arrest, the suspects held officers at bay during a ten-hour standoff as hundreds of rounds were fired from their room. All four suspects were sentenced to three life terms in prison for their role in the murders. The mother died in prison on June 12, 2011. One of her sons died in prison in 1996. Sergeant Parker was a United States Air Force Vietnam veteran and had served with the Inkster Police Department for 15 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and four children.

In Our Keeping

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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.
Sergeant Parker gave the Inkster Police Department 15 years.
Thank you for your service to the Inkster 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 Inkster Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Inkster, Wayne County, MI

Platform Identity ipd.wayne.mi.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 10, 1987

Tour of Duty 15 yrs

Age 41

Badge Number 8

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Ira Parker served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Sergeant Ira Parker 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 Inkster Police Department, 4 of 4 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Inkster Police Department

of 4 officers

100% Felonious

MI — Statewide

426

of 719 officers

59.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious