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Police Officer

Thomas George Timmons

Augusta Police Department — Augusta, GA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch July 7, 1934

Age 40

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

Badge 171

The Vigil Panel 68 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 17

Incident

Police Officer Thomas Timmons was shot and killed while questioning a burglary suspect. At approximately 10:00 pm a male suspect entered Bell & Company Grocery located at Railroad Avenue and Harper Street and demanded money from the cash register. The suspect was armed with a .45 caliber handgun and stole $15.00 in cash. Following the robbery, the suspect fled on foot and was pursued by a store clerk who was also armed with a handgun. While the clerk was pursuing the suspect, Officer Timmons was riding by on his police motorcycle and also began pursuing the suspect. As Officer Timmons approached the suspect, the man turned and shot him in the chest at close range. The store clerk fired at the suspect but missed. The suspect then escaped in a waiting vehicle. Officer Timmons was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Following an investigation, authorities identified the suspect, whose identity was confirmed by the store clerk, as the person who robbed the grocery store and shot Officer Timmons. The suspect was apprehended by detectives. The suspect, 28, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life. He escaped on April 10, 1936, and was captured in Los Angeles, California, in 1939. He was returned to Georgia and confined in Tattnall Prison, where he escaped again on January 16, 1940. On March 30, 1940, he was shot and critically wounded when he attempted to hold up a grocery store in Phenix City, Alabama. He died six days later. Officer Timmons was a United States Army WWI veteran and had served with the Augusta Police Department for approximately five years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and three daughters.

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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 Timmons gave the Augusta Police Department 5 years.
Thank you for your service to the Augusta 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 Augusta Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Augusta, GA

Platform Identity apd.richmond.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 7, 1934

Tour of Duty 5 yrs

Age 40

Badge Number 171

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Military Service

Thomas George Timmons served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Thomas George Timmons 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 GA, 548 of 904 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.6% of this state's fallen. That is 60.6 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Augusta Police Department, 9 of 18 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 50% of this agency's fallen.

Augusta Police Department

of 18 officers

50% Felonious

GA — Statewide

548

of 904 officers

60.6% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious