Thomas McGough

Steubenville Police Department — Steubenville, OH

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch August 6, 1972

Age 25

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Patrolman Thomas McGough succumbed to burns sustained six weeks earlier when he and Patrolman Leonard Lamatrice responded to an accident on US 22. A tanker truck had overturned on the bottom of a hill at N 7th Street. As the two officers exited their patrol car the spilled gasoline caught fire and both officers were engulfed by the flames. Patrolman Lamatrice died of his injuries five weeks after the accident. Patrolman McGough suffered burns over 75 percent of his body and died six weeks later. Patrolman McGough was a US Army veteran of the Vietnam War and had served with the Steubenville Police Department for 1 year.

Survivors

He was survived by his mother, sister, and four brothers.

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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.
Patrolman McGough gave the Steubenville Police Department 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Steubenville 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 Steubenville Police Department

Type Other

Location Steubenville, Jefferson County, OH

Platform Identity spd.jefferson.oh.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 6, 1972

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

Age 25

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Thomas McGough served in the U.S. Army (1966â1969) before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Thomas McGough is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,772 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 32.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Steubenville Police Department, 2 of 6 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 33.3% of this agency's fallen.

Steubenville Police Department

of 6 officers

33.3% Accident

OH — Statewide

318

of 991 officers

32.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Accident