Leo Kenneth Fox

Hammond Police Department — Hammond, IN

Felonious

End of Watch October 9, 1929

Age 33

Tour of Duty 6 yrs 4 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 7

Incident

Detective Sergeant Leo Fox was shot and killed when he and several other lawmen went into a building, looking for members of a gang that had robbed a roadhouse in Glen Oak, Illinois, which is now part of Lansing, Illinois, three days earlier. The officers went to the apartment building in Hammond after receiving information that the suspects were located there. As Detective Sergeant Fox and officers from Hammond and Cook County, Illinois, entered the suspects' apartment, gunfire erupted, and Detective Sergeant Fox was shot and killed by the gang's leader. In the shootout, the gang's leader was also killed and a Hammond detective sergeant, who later became chief, was wounded, as was an officer with the Cook County Sheriff's Police Department. The surviving five gang members, two of whom were seriously wounded, were arrested in the apartment. All five died in prison while serving life sentences. Detective Sergeant Fox had served with the Hammond Police Department for over six years.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Detective Sergeant Fox gave the Hammond Police Department 6 years.
Thank you for your service to the Hammond community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Sergeant Fox.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Hammond Police Department

Type Other

Location Hammond, Lake County, IN

Platform Identity hammpd.lake.in.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 9, 1929

Tour of Duty 6 yrs 4 mo

Age 33

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Detective Sergeant Leo Kenneth Fox 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 IN, 311 of 503 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.8% of this state's fallen. That is 61.8 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Hammond Police Department, 6 of 8 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 75% of this agency's fallen.

Hammond Police Department

of 8 officers

75% Felonious

IN — Statewide

311

of 503 officers

61.8% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious