Roll of Honor
Incident
Sergeant Michael Gannon was killed when he was struck by a Missouri Pacific train at the Ewing Avenue crossing. He succumbed to his injuries the following day. Sergeant Gannon had been with the agency for 20 years.
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- April 2, 2026
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- July 23, 2026
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Tributes
132 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Sergeant Gannon gave the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department 20 years.
Thank you for your service to the St. Louis community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Sergeant Michael Gannon 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 MO, 237 of 813 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 29.2% of this state's fallen. That is 1.8 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, 56 of 176 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.8% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Michael Gannon's cause is highlighted.
How Michael Gannon Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. Michael Gannon is highlighted in Aug.
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