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Detective

Robert M. Endler

Los Angeles Police Department — Los Angeles, CA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch February 1, 1964

Age 37

Tour of Duty 14 yrs 9 mo

Badge 6221

The Vigil Panel 99 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 239

Incident

Detective Robert Endler and Detective Sergeant Charles Monaghan were shot and killed while attempting to arrest a forgery suspect. Another officer was tasked to go next door to the Sears Department Store and pick up the suspect. He asked the detectives to help him. The suspect had not been searched or handcuffed by the store security personnel. As the three officers approached, he called out, Oh, here they are, are you the police? Someone replied they were, and he drew a revolver and fired five rounds at the trio of officers, killing Detectives Endler and Monaghan. The other officer was wounded but returned fire. The suspect escaped the police dragnet that night but was captured later. He then escaped from prison and fled to Mexico. He was later returned to the U.S. and was sentenced to prison, where he eventually died in 1996. Detective Endler was a U.S Navy veteran of WWII and served with the Los Angeles Police Department for less than 15 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, daughter, and son.

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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.
Detective Endler gave the Los Angeles Police Department 14 years.
Thank you for your service to the Los Angeles community, 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 Los Angeles Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Platform Identity lapd.losangeles.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 1, 1964

Tour of Duty 14 yrs 9 mo

Age 37

Badge Number 6221

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Robert M. Endler served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Detective Robert M. Endler 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 CA, 974 of 1,837 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53% of this state's fallen. That is 53 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Los Angeles Police Department, 115 of 240 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.9% of this agency's fallen.

Los Angeles Police Department

115

of 240 officers

47.9% Felonious

CA — Statewide

974

of 1,837 officers

53% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious