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Officer

Thomas Lee Harris

Dallas Police Department — Dallas, TX

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch July 20, 1985

Age 37

Tour of Duty 3 yrs

Badge 4641

The Vigil Panel 129 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 94

Incident

Officer Thomas Harris succumbed to injuries sustained nine days earlier while chasing a stolen vehicle on Julius Schepps Freeway near Simpson Stuart Road. He had attempted to stop the vehicle, which immediately fled. As he tried to pass a truck, his patrol car flipped over, and he suffered massive internal injuries. The suspect was sentenced to life as a habitual offender but was not charged with Officer Harris' death. Officer Harris was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Vietnam war and had served with the Dallas Police Department for three years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two 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.
Officer Harris gave the Dallas Police Department 3 years.
Thank you for your service to the Dallas 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 Dallas Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Dallas, TX

Platform Identity dpd.dallas.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 20, 1985

Tour of Duty 3 yrs

Age 37

Badge Number 4641

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Weapon Automobile

Military Service

Thomas Lee Harris served in the U.S. Navy before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Thomas Lee Harris is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In TX, 657 of 2,421 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.1% of this state's fallen. That is 27.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Dallas Police Department, 30 of 95 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.6% of this agency's fallen.

Dallas Police Department

of 95 officers

31.6% Accident

TX — Statewide

657

of 2,421 officers

27.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident