Carl Alex Brill

Mobile County Sheriff's Dept. — Mobile, AL

Felonious

End of Watch January 4, 1922

Age 39

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Deputy Sheriff Carl Brill was shot and killed from ambush shortly after he and two deputies destroyed a liquor still near Calvert. The owner of the still was arrested and charged with his murder.

The suspect was convicted of Sheriff Brill's murder and sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life and he was subsequently paroled in 1940.

Deputy Brill was survived by his wife and seven children.

Survivors

Deputy Brill was survived by his wife and seven children.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Sheriff Brill served with the Mobile County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Mobile community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Sheriff Brill.

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

Agency

Department Mobile County Sheriff's Dept.

Location Mobile, AL

Platform Identity mcso.mobile.al.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 4, 1922

Age 39

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Gunfire

Weapon Shotgun

Offender Paroled in 1940

Deputy Sheriff Carl Alex Brill is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In AL, 405 of 643 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63% of this state's fallen. That is 8.8 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Mobile County Sheriff's Dept., 6 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Mobile County Sheriff's Dept.

of 6 officers

100% Felonious

AL — Statewide

405

of 643 officers

63% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious