Patrick Allen Randel

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

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch October 23, 1974

Age 40

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 94

Incident

Narcotics Agent Patrick Randel was shot and killed during an undercover drug buy. He was attempting to purchase amphetamine pills when other officers lost contact with him. The other officers stopped the two suspects and then found Agent Randel shot to death in the front seat of his unmarked vehicle at a car park on Interstate 37 and Lloyd Bentsen Highway. One of the suspects was executed in 1985, and the second suspect had his sentence commuted to life. Agent Randel was a United States Navy veteran and had served with the Texas Department of Public Safety - Texas Highway Patrol for 12 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three 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.
Narcotics Agent Randel gave the Texas Department of Public Safety 12 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of Texas, 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 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 October 23, 1974

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

Age 40

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Patrick Allen Randel served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Narcotics Agent Patrick Allen Randel 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 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 60.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

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

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious