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Patrol Officer

Lewis C. Hipple

Harrisburg Police Bureau — Harrisburg, PA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch June 23, 1916

Age 43

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

Badge 54

The Vigil Panel 31 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 6

Incident

Officer Lewis Hipple was shot and killed while attempting to arrest two men at 5th and Market Streets at 0115 hours. One of the suspects broke free fired two shots at Officer Hipple, striking him in the wrist and heart. The suspects fled but one of them was apprehended by a Pennsylvania Railroad patrolman five blocks away. The suspect was sentenced to death and executed on September 17, 1917. Officer Hipple was a U.S Army veteran of the Spanish American war and had served with the Harrisburg Police Bureau for four years. He was survived by his wife and son. (His daughter died 3 1/2 months prior to his death from tuberculosis.)

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.
Patrol Officer Hipple gave the Harrisburg Police Bureau 4 years.
Thank you for your service to the Harrisburg 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 Harrisburg Police Bureau

Type Police Department

Location Harrisburg, PA

Platform Identity hpbpd.dauphin.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 23, 1916

Tour of Duty 4 yrs

Age 43

Badge Number 54

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Lewis C. Hipple served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Patrol Officer Lewis C. Hipple 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 PA, 597 of 1,261 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.3% of this state's fallen. That is 47.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Harrisburg Police Bureau, 3 of 7 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.9% of this agency's fallen.

Harrisburg Police Bureau

of 7 officers

42.9% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious