John Robert Fallis

Pine Bluff Police Department — Pine Bluff, AR

Felonious

End of Watch March 4, 1985

Age 26

Tour of Duty 2 yrs 6 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Patrolman Johnny Fallis was shot and killed while investigating a noise complaint at 700 Walnut Street. When he arrived at the scene he located a vehicle playing loud music with two male subjects sitting inside. As he radioed the license plate information to dispatch one of the men exited the vehicle and opened fire with a .22 caliber handgun, striking Patrolman Fallis in the arm and chest. The subject fled to Grady, Arkansas, where he was arrested the following day. At the time of Patrolman Fallis' murder, the man, 29, was wanted for in Seattle, Washington, for murdering two teenagers on April 6th, 1984. On November 22, 1985, he was convicted of Patrolman Fallis' murder and sentenced to death. In 1986 he was removed from death row and sent to Seattle, Washington, to be tried for the murder of the two teenagers. In the Rainier Beach section of Seattle he beat a 16-year-old boy to death and then shot his 15-year-old girlfriend in the head killing her. In 1989 he was convicted of their murders and sentenced to life. In 1990 he was returned to Arkansas for a retrial. In 1993 he was sentenced to life without parole. As of December 13, 2022, he was in an Arkansas Prison. He has committed 37 major disciplinary violations since his reentering prison in Arkansas. Patrolman Fallis had served with the Pine Bluff Police Department for 2-1/2 years.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Patrolman Fallis gave the Pine Bluff Police Department 2 years.
Thank you for your service to the Pine Bluff community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Fallis.

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

Agency

Department Pine Bluff Police Department

Location Pine Bluff, AR

Platform Identity pbpd.jefferson.ar.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 4, 1985

Tour of Duty 2 yrs 6 mo

Age 26

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun; .22 caliber

Offender Sentenced to life

Patrolman John Robert Fallis 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 AR, 249 of 372 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.9% of this state's fallen. That is 12.7 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Pine Bluff Police Department, 5 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Pine Bluff Police Department

of 5 officers

100% Felonious

AR — Statewide

249

of 372 officers

66.9% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious