Roll of Honor
Luke Timothy Hoffman
Incident
Police Officer Luke Hoffman succumbed to injuries sustained the previous day when he was struck by a patrol car while involved in a foot pursuit of a suspected drunk driver.
The driver had fled on foot after a slow-speed pursuit in the Aspen Hill area at approximately 1:30 am.
Officer Hoffman was struck after chasing the suspect across Old Georgia Avenue, near Bel Pre Road, in an area with very low lighting conditions. The officer in the patrol car that struck Officer Hoffman was injured when his patrol car went down an embankment and struck a tree. Officer Hoffman was flown to a hospital in Baltimore, where he succumbed to his injuries later that day.
The man Officer Hoffman was chasing was convicted of several traffic charges and marijuana possession. A jury was unable to reach a verdict on manslaughter and the charges were subsequently dropped. In May 2018 the man was arrested in Mexico as a suspect in the murder of his wife in Montgomery County, Maryland.
Officer Hoffman had served with the Montgomery County Police Department for only one year and was assigned to the 4th District. He was posthumously promoted from the rank of Police Officer I to Police Officer III.
Police Officer Luke Timothy Hoffman was brave. He gave his life to serve and protect and will always be honored and forever remembered. He's now in heaven with the other fallen angels. Thank you, Police Officer Luke Hoffman for all you did, Forever Rest in Peace!
Rachel Blitz Thankful Citizen April 25th, 2024
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You barely got started.
Police Officer III Hoffman gave the Montgomery County Police Department 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Gaithersburg community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer III Hoffman.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Officer III Luke Timothy Hoffman is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 6.1 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At Montgomery County Police Department, 9 of 21 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 42.9% of this agency's fallen.
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