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Police Officer

Thomas Richard Meyers

Kansas City Police Department — Kansas City, MO

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch January 14, 1998

Age 53

Tour of Duty 25 yrs

Badge 1589

The Vigil Panel 144 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 119

Incident

Police Officer Thomas Meyers was killed after being struck by a car while assisting a victim at the scene of an accident on I-29 near Tiffany Springs Road around 11 a.m. While talking with the victim, another vehicle driving erratically at 80 mph struck him and the car that was involved in the accident. Two other people at the scene of the accident were injured as well. The drunk driver, whose blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit, was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer and two counts of assault. The subject was denied parole in 2003, 2008, 2010, and 2015. The subject was released from prison in January 2020. Officer Meyers was a United States Marine Corps veteran who served in law enforcement for 25 years, serving with the Gladstone and Riverside Police Departments before joining the Kansas City Police Department in 1985. He earned three Meritorious Service Awards and 39 letters of commendation during his career. Officer Meyers is survived by his wife, son, daughter, mother, and brother. He is buried at the Terrace Park Cemetery, Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri.

Survivors

Officer Meyers is survived by his wife, son, daughter, mother, and brother.

In Our Keeping

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Last updated: August 2, 2026

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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 Meyers gave the Kansas City Police Department 25 years.
Thank you for your service to the Kansas City 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 Kansas City Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Kansas City, MO

Platform Identity kcpd.jackson.mo.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 14, 1998

Tour of Duty 25 yrs

Age 53

Badge Number 1589

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Automobile

Military Service

Thomas Richard Meyers served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Thomas Richard Meyers 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 MO, 516 of 813 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63.5% of this state's fallen. That is 63.5 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Kansas City Police Department, 72 of 120 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.

Kansas City Police Department

of 120 officers

60% Felonious

MO — Statewide

516

of 813 officers

63.5% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Felonious