Ronald D. Yoakum

Kansas City Police Department — Kansas City, MO

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch November 26, 1968

Age 21

Tour of Duty 10 mo

The Vigil Panel 104 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 119

Incident

Patrolman Yoakum was shot and killed after responding with two other officers to a disturbance. The first officer to arrive entered without backup and was disarmed by a suspect inside. When Patrolman Yoakum and his partner arrived, Patrolman Yoakum was shot and killed and his partner was wounded. The suspect was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to life. He was paroled in 1997. On February 11, 1998, he was charged with violating his parole after he was jailed for assaulting a Missouri state trooper who pulled him over for speeding. Patrolman Yoakum had been with the agency 10 months and served as a member of the Corps of Military Police for the United States Army.

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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.
Patrolman Yoakum served with the Kansas City Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Kansas City 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 Kansas City Police Department

Location Kansas City, MO

Platform Identity kcpd.jackson.mo.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 26, 1968

Tour of Duty 10 mo

Age 21

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Officer's handgun

Offender Paroled in 1997

Military Service

Ronald D. Yoakum served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Patrolman Ronald D. Yoakum 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 MO, 516 of 813 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 63.5% of this state's fallen. That is 9.3 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Kansas City Police Department, 72 of 120 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60% of this agency's fallen.

Kansas City Police Department

of 120 officers

60% Felonious

MO — Statewide

516

of 813 officers

63.5% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious