Kenneth Lewis Jacobs

United States Army Military Police Corps — Fort Leonard Wood, MO

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch July 8, 1944

Age 22

The Vigil Panel 80 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 64

Incident

Sergeant Kenneth Jacobs was stabbed to death in Nashville, Tennessee, while transporting a prisoner back to the 71st Ferrying Squadron command at the Municipal Airport.

The prisoner was an active duty soldier who had been arrested by Nashville police officers for being drunk in public at a local tavern. Sergeant Jacobs and another military policeman took custody of the soldier and placed him inside of a transport van. As they approached the intersection of Second Avenue and Broadway the soldier suddenly lunged from the back of the van and attacked Sergeant Jacobs as he sat in the front passenger seat. The soldier stabbed him in the neck, inflicting a serious wound.

The other military policeman and another soldier in the van were able to subdue the subject before they took Sergeant Jacobs to the hospital.

The soldier was court-martialed and convicted of guilty of murder in violation of the 92nd Article of War. He was sentenced to death.

Sergeant Jacobs was survived by his parents.

Survivors

Sergeant Jacobs was survived by his parents.

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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.
Sergeant Jacobs served with the United States Army Military Police Corps.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department United States Army Military Police Corps

Location Fort Leonard Wood, MO

Platform Identity usampcmp.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 8, 1944

Age 22

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Military Service

Kenneth Lewis Jacobs served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Sergeant Kenneth Lewis Jacobs 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 MO, 516 of 813 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63.5% of this state's fallen. That is 9.3 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At United States Army Military Police Corps, 26 of 65 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40% of this agency's fallen.

United States Army Military Police Corps

of 65 officers

40% Felonious

MO — Statewide

516

of 813 officers

63.5% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious