Thomas Carl Mills

Atlanta Police Department — Atlanta, GA

Felonious

End of Watch August 5, 1898

Age 24

Tour of Duty

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 87

Incident

Police Officer Thomas Mills succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained five days earlier when he was shot while walking his beat on Whitehall Street, near Forsyth Street, shortly after 8:00 pm. He was shot by a suspect waiting in ambush as he walked by. He was taken to Grady Hospital where he remained until succumbing to his wounds. Officer Mills had only served with the Atlanta Police Department for only four days when he was shot. He had previously served as a deputy sheriff and at the city's stockade.

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128 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Police Officer Mills served with the Atlanta Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Atlanta community. Gone but never to be forgotten.

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

Agency

Department Atlanta Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

Platform Identity apd.fulton.ga.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 5, 1898

Tour of Duty

Age 24

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Police Officer Thomas Carl Mills is one of 17,559 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 53.9% of all 32,586 officers honored here.

In GA, 548 of 903 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.7% of this state's fallen. That is 6.8 percentage points above the national rate of 53.9%.

At Atlanta Police Department, 58 of 88 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 65.9% of this agency's fallen.

Atlanta Police Department

of 88 officers

65.9% Felonious

GA — Statewide

548

of 903 officers

60.7% Felonious

Nationwide

17,559

of 32,586 officers

53.9% Felonious