Jeremiah Lynch

Mobile Police Department — Mobile, AL

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch June 3, 1872

Age 45

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 22

Incident

Officer Jerry Lynch died from stab wounds he received a month earlier while attempting to arrest disorderly individuals on Royal Street between Madison Street and Canal Street.

Officer Lynch and his partner were on foot patrol when they encountered a group of disorderly men. As they attempted to arrest one of the subjects, a man stabbed Officer Lynch in the left lung. His partner drew his weapon and fired at the group. They were able to make their escape, where they attended to Officer Lynch's wound. Officer Lynch succumbed to his wounds a month later.

After the incident, an extensive search ensued. The subject was arrested in 1880, convicted of second-degree murder, and sentenced to ten years. He was pardoned in 1888.

Officer Lynch was a Civil War veteran and had served with the Mobile Police Department for ten years.

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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 Lynch gave the Mobile Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the Mobile 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 Mobile Police Department

Location Mobile, AL

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

Service Record

End of Watch June 3, 1872

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 45

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Edged weapon; Knife

Offender Pardoned

Military Service

Jeremiah Lynch served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Officer Jeremiah Lynch 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 Police Department, 18 of 23 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 78.3% of this agency's fallen.

Mobile Police Department

of 23 officers

78.3% Felonious

AL — Statewide

405

of 643 officers

63% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious