Mark Alan Frederick

Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol — Austin, TX

Felonious

End of Watch April 4, 1976

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 94

Incident

Trooper Mark Frederick was shot and killed after stopping a car when it was reported that the occupants had used a stolen credit card. The suspect was on federal probation for making bomb threats at the time. He was sentenced to death and executed in January of 2000.

Survivors

Trooper Frederick was survived by his expectant wife, daughter, mother, and sister.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Trooper Frederick served with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Thank you for your service to the people of Texas. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Trooper Frederick.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol

Type Highway Patrol

Location Austin, TX

Platform Identity tdpsthp.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 4, 1976

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Trooper Mark Alan Frederick is one of 17,559 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 53.9% of all 32,587 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 6.4 percentage points above the national rate of 53.9%.

At Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol, 35 of 95 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 36.8% of this agency's fallen.

Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol

of 95 officers

36.8% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,460

of 2,421 officers

60.3% Felonious

Nationwide

17,559

of 32,587 officers

53.9% Felonious