Harris Bruce McInnes

Boston Police Department — Roxbury Crossing, MA

Felonious

End of Watch July 3, 1927

Age 36

Tour of Duty 7 yrs 8 mo

Badge 1536

The Vigil Panel 53 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 105

Incident

Patrolman Harris McInnes was shot and killed while pursuing two suspects who had just robbed a Chinese restaurant on Main Street, near Charles Street, in the Charlestown area. He chased both suspects into an alley where one of them opened fire, fatally wounding him. The two men fled to New York where they remained for one month before trying to steal a car to flee to California. After stealing the car a traffic officer tried to stop them for a traffic violation on Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Beach, New York. The suspects tried to flee but one was killed when the vehicle crashed into a utility pole. The second suspect was arrested and charged in New York with grand larceny and in Massachusetts with murder. Patrolman McInnes had served with the Boston Police Department for 7-1/2 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and daughter.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Patrolman McInnes gave the Boston Police Department 7 years.
Thank you for your service to the Roxbury Crossing community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Patrolman McInnes.

— 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 July 3, 1927

Tour of Duty 7 yrs 8 mo

Age 36

Badge Number 1536

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender Killed in vehicle pursuit

Patrolman Harris Bruce McInnes 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