Walter Stephen Taylor

Fort Worth Police Department — Fort Worth, TX

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch October 5, 1988

Age 33

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Badge 2271

The Vigil Panel 133 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 58

Incident

Officer Walter Taylor was killed when his patrol car plunged off a bridge that was under construction. While traveling south on Montgomery Street at 4:30 a.m., he crashed into a barricade and flipped over, landing on a dirt embankment on Interstate 30. Officer Taylor was a United States Marine Corps veteran and had served with the Fort Worth Police Department for two years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, two sons, daughter, father and siblings.

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.
Officer Taylor gave the Fort Worth Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Fort Worth 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 Fort Worth Police Department

Type Other

Location Fort Worth, TX

Platform Identity fwpd.tarrant.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch October 5, 1988

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Age 33

Badge Number 2271

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Walter Stephen Taylor served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Walter Stephen Taylor 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 Fort Worth Police Department, 19 of 59 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.2% of this agency's fallen.

Fort Worth Police Department

of 59 officers

32.2% Accident

TX — Statewide

657

of 2,421 officers

27.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident