Claude J. Profili, Sr.

Baltimore Police Dept. — Baltimore, MD

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch February 6, 1964

Age 35

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

The Vigil Panel 99 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 150

Incident

Police Officer Claude Profili was shot and killed after responding to a bank alarm call at the Maryland National Bank at Franklin Street and Franklintown Road. The bank had been known for numerous false hold-up alarms in the past. Officer Profili approached the bank with two sets of double doors in the front with his weapon drawn. As he entered the first set of double doors, a suspect opened the second set of double doors and fired one shot into his forehead above the left eye. Officer Profili then fell back down the steps and into the street. Four suspects fled the scene with $23,466. One was apprehended within 48 hours. The other three were apprehended several days later by FBI agents. One was captured in Las Vegas, Nevada, another in Ozark, Arkansas, and the third in Denver, Colorado. Officer Profili was rushed to the hospital where he died eight days later from his wound. The three apprehended later, 25, 30, and 30, were convicted of Officer Profili's murder and sentenced to life on July 2nd, 1964. The youngest one's sentence was reduced to 20 years in 1969. He was paroled and transferred to a federal prison to serve 44 years for his role in several bank robberies. Officer Profili was a United States Navy WWII veteran and had served with the Baltimore City Police Department for 12 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two children.

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Tributes

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.
Police Officer Profili gave the Baltimore City Police Department 12 years.
Thank you for your service to the Baltimore 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 Baltimore Police Dept.

Location Baltimore, MD

Platform Identity baltpd.baltimore.md.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 6, 1964

Tour of Duty 12 yrs

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun; Pistol

Offender Three sentenced to life

Military Service

Claude J. Profili, Sr. served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Police Officer Claude J. Profili, Sr. 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 MD, 195 of 377 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 51.7% of this state's fallen. That is 2.5 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At Baltimore Police Dept., 80 of 151 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 53% of this agency's fallen.

Baltimore Police Dept.

of 151 officers

53% Felonious

MD — Statewide

195

of 377 officers

51.7% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious