Warren Mitchell

El Paso Police Department — El Paso, TX

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch May 16, 1953

Age 33

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 33

Incident

Patrolman Warren Mitchell was shot and killed while investigating a shots fired call. A suspect had fired a rifle into a fast-food restaurant after beind turned down for a job. The officers responded from the restaurant to the man's home to arrest him. As the officers approached the house the suspect opened fire on them. Patrolman Mitchell returned to his cruiser to try to call for help but was shot in the head and killed. After a one-hour gunbattle the suspect was finally arrested. The 28-year-old suspect was adjudged insane and committed at the Rusk State Mental Hospital. Two years later he was adjudged sane and released. Patrolman Mitchell was a WWII veteran and had been with the agency for two years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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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 Mitchell gave the El Paso Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the El Paso 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 El Paso Police Department

Type Other

Location El Paso, El Paso County, TX

Platform Identity eppd.elpaso.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 16, 1953

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Age 33

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Rifle

Military Service

Warren Mitchell served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Patrolman Warren Mitchell 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 97,772 officers honored here.

In TX, 1,461 of 2,422 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.3% of this state's fallen. That is 60.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At El Paso Police Department, 23 of 34 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 67.6% of this agency's fallen.

El Paso Police Department

of 34 officers

67.6% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,461

of 2,422 officers

60.3% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,772 officers

0% Felonious