Claude Arthur Medearis

United States Department of the Treasury - United States Customs Service - Office of Investigations — Washington, DC

Felonious

End of Watch April 19, 1995

Age 41

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Senior Special Agent Claude Medearis was one of eight federal agents killed in a terrorist attack carried out against the United States government. Agent Medearis is survived by his wife, daughter, and three granddaughters. Eight federal law enforcement agents and one local sheriff's deputy were killed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, when domestic terrorists detonated a truck bomb outside of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19th, 1995. A total of 168 civilians and government workers, including numerous children in an on-site daycare facility, were killed in the terrorist attack. The terrorists attacked the building in retaliation for a search warrant and raid on the compound of a cult known as the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas, on February 28th, 1993. Four special agents with the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms were slain during the raid, which culminated on April 19th, 1993, with a mass murder-suicide in which over 80 members of the Branch Davidians cult died. Both subjects involved in the bombing were arrested. One of the men was sentenced to life while the other was sentenced to death. He was subsequently executed on June 11th, 2001.

Survivors

Agent Medearis is survived by his wife, daughter, and three granddaughters.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Senior Special Agent Medearis served with the United States Department of the Treasury.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Senior Special Agent Medearis.

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

Agency

Department United States Department of the Treasury - United States Customs Service - Office of Investigations

Location Washington, DC

Platform Identity usdtuscsoifed.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch April 19, 1995

Age 41

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Explosives; Bomb

Offender Executed in 2001

Senior Special Agent Claude Arthur Medearis 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 DC, 754 of 1,419 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53.1% of this state's fallen. That is 1.1 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At United States Department of the Treasury - United States Customs Service - Office of Investigations, 2 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 33.3% of this agency's fallen.

United States Department of the Treasury - United States Customs Service - Office of Investigations

of 6 officers

33.3% Felonious

DC — Statewide

754

of 1,419 officers

53.1% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious