Willie C. Ivery Jr.

Metropolitan Police Department — Washington, DC

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch November 15, 1968

Age 26

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

The Vigil Panel 104 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 130

Incident

Officer Wilie Ivery was accidentally shot and killed by two uniformed officers who mistook him for a suspect.

He and his partner were working a plainclothes detail near 6th Street and Massachusetts Avenue, NE, when they attempted to stop a robbery suspect. They exited their unmarked cruiser with their guns drawn. At the same time, the uniformed officers pulled up as they were also looking for the armed robbery suspect.

Officer Ivery was told to halt and as he turned to see who was yelling, he was shot by the officers.

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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 Ivery gave the Metropolitan Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Washington community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Metropolitan Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Washington, DC

Platform Identity mpdc.dc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 15, 1968

Tour of Duty 2 yrs

Age 26

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Willie C. Ivery Jr. served in the the United States military before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Willie C. Ivery Jr. 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 DC, 454 of 1,419 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32% of this state's fallen. That is 32 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Metropolitan Police Department, 48 of 131 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 36.6% of this agency's fallen.

Metropolitan Police Department

of 131 officers

36.6% Accident

DC — Statewide

454

of 1,419 officers

32% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident