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Officer

Leslie G. Lane Jr.

Dallas Police Department — Dallas, TX

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch March 2, 1974

Age 25

Tour of Duty 3 yrs 10 mo

Badge 2831

The Vigil Panel 113 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 94

Incident

Officer Leslie Lane was shot and killed with another officer's weapon while attempting to arrest an abduction suspect in the 4700 block of Live Oak Street. The man had abducted an off-duty female officer. She was able to escape the man, but he stole her weapon and fled. He abducted another woman before leading officers on a car chase. The second woman escaped when he crashed, and as officers attempted to arrest him, he shot at them, fatally wounding Officer Lane. The suspect was later killed in prison. Officer Lane was a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam War and had served with the Dallas Police Department for almost four years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and son.

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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 Lane gave the Dallas Police Department 3 years.
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 March 2, 1974

Tour of Duty 3 yrs 10 mo

Age 25

Badge Number 2831

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Officer's handgun

Military Service

Leslie G. Lane Jr. served in the U.S. Army (1967â1970) before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Leslie G. Lane Jr. 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