Roll of Honor
Incident
Officer George Noonan died form injuries sustained four days earlier while attempting to arrest a subject who had been causing a disturbance in the business section of town in the days leading up to the Fourth of July.
For several days, a group of men had been lighting off fireworks and throwing them at women and horses. Officer Noonan confiscated the fireworks from several of the men and placed them in his pocket. One of them refused to cooperate and started struggling with him. Officer Noonan was either thrown to the ground or tripped with such force that the fireworks in his pocket exploded, throwing him two feet off of the ground and causing a serious injury.
He was taken to a hospital in Baltimore where he underwent surgery before passing away.
Officer Noonan had served with the Bel Air Police Department for several years.
Survivors
He was survived by his wife.
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Officer Noonan served with the Bel Air Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Bel Air community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Officer Noonan.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Officer George Oliver Noonan 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 MD, 140 of 377 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.1% of this state's fallen. That is 37.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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