Daniel J. McShane

Boston Police Department — Roxbury Crossing, MA

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch January 31, 1922

Age 25

The Vigil Panel 42 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 105

Incident

Patrolman Daniel McShane was shot and killed shortly after midnight when he responded to the scene of a dispute between a tenant and a landlord at 17 Wheeler Street. He was attempting to crawl through a window when he was shot in the stomach and killed. The suspect was apprehended after several hours in which he and officers exchanged almost 100 shots. The suspect, age 60, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 12 to 15 years. Patrolman McShane was a U.S. Army veteran of WWI veteran and had served with the Boston Police Department for two years.

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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.
Patrolman McShane served with the Boston Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Roxbury Crossing 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 Boston Police Department

Location Roxbury Crossing, MA

Platform Identity bpd.suffolk.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch January 31, 1922

Age 25

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun; .44 caliber

Offender Sentenced to 15 years

Military Service

Daniel J. McShane served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Patrolman Daniel J. McShane 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 MA, 199 of 469 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.4% of this state's fallen. That is 11.8 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At Boston Police Department, 45 of 106 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 42.5% of this agency's fallen.

Boston Police Department

of 106 officers

42.5% Felonious

MA — Statewide

199

of 469 officers

42.4% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious