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Police Officer

George August Tessier, III

New Orleans Police Department — New Orleans, LA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch July 14, 2004

Age 37

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Badge 1190

The Vigil Panel 152 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 127

Incident

Police Officer George Tessier was struck and killed by the driver of a tractor-trailer truck while standing on the side of westbound I-10 near Michoud Boulevard.

Officer Tessier and a second officer were preparing to escort a tractor-trailer on I-10. The tractor-trailer was parked on the shoulder of the interstate, behind two marked patrol cars.

A second truck was traveling westbound when it veered off the interstate and struck the side of the parked tractor-trailer, and then struck Officer Tessier, who was standing near the front of the truck and his patrol car.

He was taken to the Medical Center of Louisiana, where he later died from injuries sustained in the collision.

Officer Tessier was a U.S. Army veteran and had served with the New Orleans Police Department for 10 years.

Survivors

He is survived by his mother and sister.

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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.
Police Officer Tessier gave the New Orleans Police Department 10 years.
Thank you for your service to the New Orleans community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department New Orleans Police Department

Type Police Department

Location New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Platform Identity nopd.orleans.la.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 14, 2004

Tour of Duty 10 yrs

Age 37

Badge Number 1190

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

George August Tessier, III served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer George August Tessier, III is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,756 officers honored here.

In LA, 180 of 595 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 30.3% of this state's fallen. That is 30.3 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At New Orleans Police Department, 35 of 128 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.3% of this agency's fallen.

New Orleans Police Department

of 128 officers

27.3% Accident

LA — Statewide

180

of 595 officers

30.3% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,756 officers

0% Accident