Louie Gordon Mizelle

Anchorage Police Department — Anchorage, AK

Veteran → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch June 6, 1989

Age 35

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 9

Incident

Patrol Officer Louie Mizelle was shot and killed after responding to a call of shots being fired at an apartment complex in the Mountain View area at 9:30 pm. Upon his arrival, the lone gunman shot him five times in the leg, abdomen, and chest with a .22 caliber rifle. Other officers arrived and surrounded the building before storming the room and taking the suspect into custody. Officer Mizelle was transported to Humana Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds in surgery several hours after the incident. The subject who shot him had been committed to a psychiatric hospital the previous year. He was found guilty of Officer Mizelle's murder and sentenced to 99 years in prison. Officer Mizelle was a United States Air Force Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Anchorage Police Department for five and a half years. He is survived by his wife and two children. He is buried at Sea Lawn Memorial Park in Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife and two children.

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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 Mizelle gave the Anchorage Police Department 5 years.
Thank you for your service to the Anchorage 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 Anchorage Police Department

Type Other

Location Anchorage, Anchorage Municipality, AK

Platform Identity apd.anchorage.ak.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 6, 1989

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle

Military Service

Louie Gordon Mizelle served in the U.S. Air Force (1973â1983) before joining law enforcement.

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Patrol Officer Louie Gordon Mizelle 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 AK, 35 of 50 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 70% of this state's fallen. That is 70 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Anchorage Police Department, 9 of 10 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 90% of this agency's fallen.

Anchorage Police Department

of 10 officers

90% Felonious

AK — Statewide

of 50 officers

70% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious