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Melissa Jayne Schmidt

Minneapolis Police Department — Minneapolis, MN

Felonious Veteran →

End of Watch August 1, 2002

Age 35

Tour of Duty 6 yrs 6 mo

Badge 6367

The Vigil Panel 150 ›

Gender Female

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 49

Incident

Officer Melissa Schmidt was shot and killed after she and her partner responded to a call shortly after 7:00 pm reporting a woman with a gun at a public housing complex.

Contact was made with the 60-year-old female suspect at Horn Towers, and while the officers were questioning her, she said she needed to go to the bathroom. Officer Schmidt escorted the woman to the public restroom in the lobby of the building. While in the restroom, the woman produced a handgun and opened fire, striking Officer Schmidt in the abdomen below her vest. Officer Schmidt was able to return fire and killed the suspect.

Officer Schmidt was a United States Marine Corps veteran who served with the Minneapolis Police Department for more than six years and was assigned to the Public Housing Unit.

Survivors

She is survived by her parents and brother.

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Added to badge.nw: April 2, 2026
Last updated: July 23, 2026

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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 Schmidt gave the Minneapolis Police Department 6 years.
Thank you for your service to the Minneapolis community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, sister.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Department Minneapolis Police Department

Location Minneapolis, MN

Platform Identity mpd.hennepin.mn.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 1, 2002

Tour of Duty 6 yrs 6 mo

Age 35

Badge Number 6367

Gender Female

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Offender Shot and killed

Military Service

Melissa Jayne Schmidt served in the Marine Corps (1989â1993) before joining law enforcement.

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Police Officer Melissa Jayne Schmidt 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 MN, 173 of 293 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 59% of this state's fallen. That is 4.8 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Minneapolis Police Department, 32 of 50 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 64% of this agency's fallen.

Minneapolis Police Department

of 50 officers

64% Felonious

MN — Statewide

173

of 293 officers

59% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious