Benjamin Franklyn Ingram

Tracy Police Department — Tracy, CA

Felonious

End of Watch June 20, 1915

Age 38

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Deputy Benjamin Ingram and Deputy Frank Blondin were shot and killed while leaving a restaurant they were checking for a suspect. They were engaged in a gunfight by an unrelated suspect and both officers were killed. The suspect was apprehended.

The 22-year-old suspect was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life. He was paroled on January 22, 1926.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Marshal Ingram served with the Tracy Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Tracy community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Marshal Ingram.

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

Agency

Department Tracy Police Department

Location Tracy, CA

Platform Identity tpd.sanjoaquin.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 20, 1915

Age 38

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender Paroled in 1926

Deputy Marshal Benjamin Franklyn Ingram 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 CA, 974 of 1,837 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53% of this state's fallen. That is 1.2 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At Tracy Police Department, 3 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.

Tracy Police Department

of 5 officers

60% Felonious

CA — Statewide

974

of 1,837 officers

53% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious