Roll of Honor
Mathew Leslie Lyons
Incident
Location: Montana Incident Date: Not available
Senior Officer Mathew Lyons died from complications as a result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.
Senior Officer Lyons had served with the United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations for over 12 years and was the Port Director at the Port of Whitlash, Montana.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Senior Officer Mathew Leslie Lyons died on October 28, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 48.
He is one of 884 officers honored here, and one of 29 at United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
Officer Lyons is survived by his son, daughter, and sister.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Senior Officer Lyons gave the United States Department of Homeland Security 12 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Officer Lyons.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Senior Officer Mathew Leslie Lyons is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 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 0.6 percentage points above the national rate of 9.1%.
At United States Department of Homeland Security - Customs and Border Protection - Office of Field Operations, 30 of 39 officers on record were lost to illness connected to their service — 76.9% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Mathew Leslie Lyons's cause is highlighted.
How Mathew Leslie Lyons Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Mathew Leslie Lyons is highlighted in Oct.
Incident Location
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