Claude Edward "Pat" Moore

Council Bluffs Police Department — Council Bluffs, IA

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch June 30, 1971

Age 51

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Lieutenant Pat Moore was shot and killed by one of two men after they robbed the First National Bank of $52,000. Police arrived at the bank just as the suspects were driving away. As they pursued the vehicle, one of the suspects jumped out five blocks away and fled on foot into a residential area. Police continued to pursue the vehicle for over an hour, which ended when the vehicle crashed through a fence in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The suspect fled the scene on foot and escaped. Lieutenant Moore and another officer were searching the area where the first suspect fled when a citizen told them that she had seen a man with a bag run into a nearby home. It was discovered that the suspect had taken a 74-year-old woman hostage in that home. As Lieutenant Moore entered the home to negotiate, the suspect shot him in the head and wounded the other officer. The suspect ran from the home just as FBI agents were arriving on the scene. The agents shot the suspect several times as he ran toward the home of a retired dentist. The dentist saw the suspect coming, stepped out onto his porch, and shot the suspect in the abdomen with his .22 caliber rifle. The suspect shot the dentist in the shoulder and then crashed through his glass front door, where he collapsed. The suspect, a former inmate at the Colorado State Penitentiary, died at the hospital. It is unknown if the other suspect was ever apprehended. Lieutenant Moore was a United States WWII veteran and had served with the Council Bluffs Police Department for 28 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his four children.

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Tributes

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.
Lieutenant Moore gave the Council Bluffs Police Department 28 years.
Thank you for your service to the Council Bluffs community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Council Bluffs Police Department

Location Council Bluffs, IA

Platform Identity cbpd.pottawat.ia.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 30, 1971

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

Age 51

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender One shot and killed

Military Service

Claude Edward "Pat" Moore served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Lieutenant Claude Edward "Pat" Moore 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 IA, 129 of 226 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 57.1% of this state's fallen. That is 2.9 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Council Bluffs Police Department, 4 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 66.7% of this agency's fallen.

Council Bluffs Police Department

of 6 officers

66.7% Felonious

IA — Statewide

129

of 226 officers

57.1% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious