Roll of Honor
Incident
Lieutenant Brown suffered a fatal heart attack while driving the agency's DARE vehicle, a 1987 Ford Escort, down the JFK Causeway. The vehicle struck the guardrail, traveled several hundred feet, then crossed over the median and struck another car head-on. The driver of the other car was the mother of a police officer and was critically injured in the accident. Lieutenant Brown had been in charge of the DARE program since 1987.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife.
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Tributes
I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Brown served with the Nueces County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Corpus Christi community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Brown.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Lieutenant Irvin M. Brown is one of 1 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 officers honored here.
In TX, 88 of 2,422 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 3.6% of this state's fallen. That is 3.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At Nueces County Sheriff's Office, 1 of 9 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 11.1% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Cardiac compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Irvin M. Brown's cause is highlighted.
How Irvin M. Brown Compares
When Cardiac Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Cardiac deaths across the full memorial record. Irvin M. Brown is highlighted in Feb.
Others Who Wore This Badge
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