Roll of Honor
Lloyd Bernard Leaman
Incident
Location: Pennsylvania Weapon: Officer's handgun Offender: Released
Lieutenant Lloyd Leaman was shot and killed with his own weapon at the Glen Riddle Station in Glen Riddle, Pennsylvania.
He was supervising a squad of 12 railroad detectives who were searching the Ontario Branch Line for a group of thieves who had been stealing from railroad property in the area. He was checking the Glen Riddle Station at approximately 4:00 am when he encountered several men exiting the station with stolen property. He was attacked, disarmed, and shot in the head with his own service revolver.
Two men were arrested in connection with his murder but were later released. Another suspect was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to five to 10 years in prison in January 1925. In 1924, a subject serving time for murder in the Eastern Penitentiary was charged with murder and a trial was scheduled, but the charges were later dropped.
Lieutenant Leaman had served with the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department for at least six years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and father.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Leaman gave the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department 6 years.
Thank you for your service to the Philadelphpia community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Leaman.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Lieutenant Lloyd Bernard Leaman 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 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 Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department, 13 of 36 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 36.1% of this agency's fallen.
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