Shane Russell Chadwick

Great Falls Police Department — Great Falls, MT

Felonious

End of Watch September 7, 1994

Age 29

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Badge 167

The Vigil Panel 140 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Senior Officer Shane Chadwick was shot and killed while responding to a noise complaint in an alley behind the Leland Apartments on 8th Street, between 1st Avenue North and Central Avenue, at about 4:30 am. The subject was a mentally ill man known locally as the "Birdman." He was shoveling birdseed to hundreds of birds causing them to make lots of noise. As Officer Chadwick approached the subject the man suddenly turned and shot at him with two 9 mm handguns in an ambush. The man was later shot and killed by a police sniper. Officer Chadwick had served with the Great Falls Department for two years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and son.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Senior Officer Chadwick gave the Great Falls Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Great Falls community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Officer Chadwick.

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

Agency

Department Great Falls Police Department

Location Great Falls, MT

Platform Identity gfpd.cascade.mt.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch September 7, 1994

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Age 29

Badge Number 167

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun; 9 mm

Offender Shot and killed

Senior Officer Shane Russell Chadwick is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In MT, 93 of 142 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 65.5% of this state's fallen. That is 11.3 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Great Falls Police Department, 4 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.7% of this agency's fallen.

Great Falls Police Department

of 6 officers

66.7% Felonious

MT — Statewide

of 142 officers

65.5% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious