Incident
Officer Loding suffered a fatal heart attack at about 1:40 p.m. while performing maintenance work on a police boat at the Harbor Master Station. He was attempting to pull the boat out of the water with a hoist and the combination of physical exertion and high levels of carbon monoxide caused him to suffer a heart attack. He was transported to the hospital where a subsequent heart attack resulted in hi death.
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22 years. You could have gone home.
Police Officer Loding gave the Detroit Police Department 22 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Detroit community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Loding.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Incident Details
Police Officer Stuart H. Loding is one of 1,306 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 4% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In MI, 39 of 718 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 5.4% of this state's fallen. That is 1.4 percentage points above the national rate of 4%.
At Detroit Police Department, 8 of 250 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 3.2% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Cardiac compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Stuart H. Loding's cause is highlighted.
How Stuart H. Loding Compares
When Cardiac Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Cardiac deaths across the full memorial record. Stuart H. Loding is highlighted in Jun.
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