Roll of Honor
Louis Henry Aguirre
Incident
Location: New York Incident Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 Weapon: Aircraft; Passenger jet Offender: 19 suicide attackers
Special Agent Loius Aguirre died as the result of cancer that he developed following his assignment to the search and recovery efforts at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
Special Agent Aguirre was a U.S. Army veteran. He had served with the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations and the legacy United States Department of Justice - Immigration and Naturalization Service for 19 years. He had previously served with the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
September 11, 2001 - The Years After
Special Agent Louis Henry Aguirre was assigned to the search and recovery at the World Trade Center site after September 11, 2001. He was 37 years old that fall.
He died on November 27, 2020 - 19 years and 2 months later - of an illness contracted there. He was 56.
He is one of 599 officers honored here, and one of 7 at United States Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations.
The most recent of these deaths was October 24, 2025.
Officers who worked the search, rescue, and recovery at the World Trade Center site breathed contaminated air for weeks and months afterward. Many developed cancers and respiratory disease, and they have gone on dying of it ever since.
Seventy-two officers were killed on the morning itself. Hundreds more have died in the years that followed. They are honored here together, because the same attack killed them all. With some it simply took longer.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife.
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Tributes
You walked into it and it took years to finish the job.
Special Agent Aguirre gave the United States Department of Homeland Security 33 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Special Agent Aguirre.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Louis Henry Aguirre served in the U.S. Army (1983â1990) before joining law enforcement.
Special Agent Louis Henry Aguirre is one of 1 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.
In DC, 137 of 1,419 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 9.7% of this state's fallen. That is 9.7 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
At United States Department of Homeland Security - Immigration and Customs Enforcement - Homeland Security Investigations, 8 of 10 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 80% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Louis Henry Aguirre's cause is highlighted.
How Louis Henry Aguirre Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Louis Henry Aguirre is highlighted in Nov.
Incident Location
Military Service
Louis Henry Aguirre served in the U.S. Army (1983–1990) before joining law enforcement.
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Others Who Wore This Badge
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