James H. Carroll

Lynn Police Department — Lynn, MA

Felonious

End of Watch June 25, 1910

Age 55

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 10

Incident

Patrolman James Carroll was shot and killed in a shootout with three armed robbers. Patrolman Carroll was assigned to provide an escort to a partner from the Landregan and Welch Shoe Company as he picked up the company payroll, which was approximately $5,000 to $6,000. As they left the bank, while walking on Oxford Street, three men started following them. At the intersection of Oxford and Willow, the men attacked. The businessman was shot first, then they shot Patrolman Carroll. As both men lay injured on the ground, the robbers emptied their weapons into them. The event had been witnessed by numerous people inside an adjacent shoe factory and they started pelting the fleeing robbers with shoes, cutters knives, and scraps of iron. As they fled, they later shot another civilian in the leg, believing him to be a plain clothes policeman. When the robbers were being surrounded, one escaped, one committed suicide, and one was shot in the hand during another gun battle. The robber that escaped was later shot and killed by other officers after he opened fire on them. The captured robber was convicted of murder and robbery and was executed on March 7th, 1911.

Survivors

Patrolman Carroll was survived by his wife.

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28 years. You could have gone home.
Patrolman Carroll gave the Lynn Police Department 28 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Lynn community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman Carroll.

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

Agency

Department Lynn Police Department

Location Lynn, MA

Platform Identity lynnpd.essex.ma.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch June 25, 1910

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

Age 55

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender Executed

Patrolman James H. Carroll 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 Lynn Police Department, 4 of 11 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 36.4% of this agency's fallen.

Lynn Police Department

of 11 officers

36.4% Felonious

MA — Statewide

199

of 469 officers

42.4% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious