Lloyd O'Neil Mayse

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission — Raleigh, NC

Felonious Veteran →

End of Watch November 27, 1980

Age 34

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 9

Incident

Wildlife Officer Lloyd Mayse was shot and killed by a man while conducting hunting license checks on two brothers in Northampton County at 4:00 am. He had stopped two men spotlighting deer from a car on State Road 1321 near the Virginia border. Unbeknownst to Officer Mayes, one of the brothers was a fugitive from Virginia. A struggle ensued between the three in which Officer Mayse shot and killed one of the men. Officer Mayse was also shot and killed during the struggle. The brother who survived then hid Officer Mayse's body and then threw his shirt and badge, along with the murder weapon, into Corwell's Millpond approximately three miles away. The man then fled back into Virginia with his brother's body. He was arrested later that morning after crashing his vehicle during a vehicle pursuit on I-264 in Virginia. He was acquitted of murder after accusing his deceased brother of firing the fatal shot. Officer Mayse was a veteran of the Vietnam War.

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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.
Wildlife Officer Mayse served with the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
Thank you for your service to the Raleigh 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 North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

Location Raleigh, NC

Platform Identity ncwrccons.wake.nc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 27, 1980

Age 34

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Shotgun

Offender Shot and killed

Military Service

Lloyd O'Neil Mayse served in the Army (1966â1969) before joining law enforcement.

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Wildlife Officer Lloyd O'Neil Mayse 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 NC, 385 of 664 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 58% of this state's fallen. That is 3.8 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, 4 of 10 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40% of this agency's fallen.

North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission

of 10 officers

40% Felonious

NC — Statewide

385

of 664 officers

58% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious