Roll of Honor
Billy Dewayne Allen, Sr.
Incident
Location: Oklahoma Incident Date: Not available
Captain Billy Allen died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 during a presumed exposure while on duty.
Captain Allen had served with the Fort Sill Police Department for 25 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Captain Billy Dewayne Allen, Sr. died on December 6, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 49.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and six children.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Captain Allen served with the United States Department of Defense.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Captain Allen.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Captain Billy Dewayne Allen, Sr. is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In OK, 21 of 582 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 3.6% of this state's fallen. That is 5.5 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Billy Dewayne Allen, Sr.'s cause is highlighted.
How Billy Dewayne Allen, Sr. Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Billy Dewayne Allen, Sr. is highlighted in Dec.