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Police Officer

Matthew Lane Gerald

Baton Rouge Police Department — Baton Rouge, LA

Veteran → Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 17, 2016

Age 41

Tour of Duty 9 mo

Badge 1100

The Vigil Panel 166 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 26

Incident

Police Officer Matthew Gerald, Corporal Montrell Jackson, Deputy Sheriff Brad Garafola, and Sergeant Nick Tullier, both of the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, were shot and killed by a subject outside of a convenience store at 9611 Airline Highway shortly before 9:00 am.

Officers had received reports of a subject walking along the roadway carrying a rifle. As responding officers arrived in the area, they were ambushed by the subject. Deputy Garafola, Corporal Jackson, and Officer Gerald were killed, Sergeant Tullier succumbed to his injuries in 2022, and two officers were injured.

The subject was shot and killed by other responding officers.

Officer Gerald was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Baton Rouge Police Department for nine months.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, two daughters, and a son (who was born after his father was killed).

In Our Keeping

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Added to badge.nw: August 2, 2026
Last updated: August 2, 2026

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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.
Police Officer Gerald served with the Baton Rouge Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Baton Rouge community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Baton Rouge Police Department

Type Other

Location Baton Rouge, LA

Platform Identity brpd.ebr.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 17, 2016

Tour of Duty 9 mo

Age 41

Badge Number 1100

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle

Military Service

Matthew Lane Gerald served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1994â1998) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Matthew Lane Gerald 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 LA, 364 of 595 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.2% of this state's fallen. That is 61.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Baton Rouge Police Department, 17 of 27 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63% of this agency's fallen.

Baton Rouge Police Department

of 27 officers

63% Felonious

LA — Statewide

364

of 595 officers

61.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious