Roll of Honor
Incident
Sergeant Patrick Ryan died from injuries sustained in an automobile crash two miles north of Brooksville, Florida, while en route to pick up a prisoner for extradition back to Ohio. He and the Cuyahoga County prosecutor had gone to pick up a vote fraud suspect, who was being held in Miami, Florida. The prosecutor's car crashed into the rear end of a car that had stopped suddenly in front of them, causing it to flip over. Sergeant Ryan, who had been detailed to the prosecutor's office, was seriously hurt and died several hours later in a hospital in Brooksville, Florida. Sergeant Ryan had served with the Cleveland Division of Police for 40 years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife and son.
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Tributes
40 years. You could have gone home.
Sergeant Ryan gave the Cleveland Division of Police 40 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Cleveland community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Sergeant Ryan.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sergeant Patrick Ryan is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In OH, 318 of 991 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.1% of this state's fallen. That is 1.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Cleveland Division of Police, 24 of 119 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 20.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Patrick Ryan's cause is highlighted.
How Patrick Ryan Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Patrick Ryan is highlighted in Jan.
Incident Location
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