Leroy King

Lafayette Police Department — Lafayette, LA

Felonious

End of Watch May 20, 1959

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 6

Incident

Sergeant King and Captain Harold Abadie were killed when they responded to a reported kidnapping at 207-1/2 Spring Street. The original call was for a report of three children that had been kidnapped. Before the officers arrived, the suspect had killed a neighborhood woman. As Captain Abadie and Sergeant King walked up to the door of the house where the kidnapping call had originated, the suspect shot both officers at point-blank range. Responding officers shot and killed the suspect later in the day.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Detective Sergeant King served with the Lafayette Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Lafayette community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Sergeant King.

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

Agency

Department Lafayette Police Department

Type Police Department

Location Lafayette, Lafayette Parish, LA

Platform Identity lpd.lafayette.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 20, 1959

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun

Detective Sergeant Leroy King is one of 1 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In LA, 364 of 595 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 61.2% of this state's fallen. That is 61.2 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At Lafayette Police Department, 7 of 7 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 100% of this agency's fallen.

Lafayette Police Department

of 7 officers

100% Felonious

LA — Statewide

364

of 595 officers

61.2% Felonious

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Felonious