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Samuel Norman

Pennsylvania State Constable - Allegheny County — Pittsburgh, PA

Felonious Veteran →

End of Watch July 27, 1877

Age 35

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 10

Incident

Constable Samuel Norman succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained the previous day while attempting to serve an arrest warrant on a man wanted for assaulting a woman in Tarentum Borough.

The subject purchased a pistol after learning that a warrant had been issued for him. Constable Norman located him near the intersection of Third Avenue and Corbet Street, attempting to leave town at the railroad station. As he attempted to take him into custody, the man pulled out the pistol and shot him once in the jaw and once in the head. Constable Norman was taken to his residence, where he succumbed to his wounds the very next morning.

The man fled the scene after the shooting.

Constable Norman was a Union Army veteran of the Civil War.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and two daughters.

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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.
Constable Norman served with the Pennsylvania State Constable.
Thank you for your service to the Pittsburgh community. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Pennsylvania State Constable - Allegheny County

Type Other

Location Pittsburgh, PA

Platform Identity pscacco.allegheny.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 27, 1877

Age 35

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Samuel Norman served in the U.S. Army before joining law enforcement.

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Constable Samuel Norman is one of 17,559 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 53.9% of all 32,587 officers honored here.

In PA, 597 of 1,261 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.3% of this state's fallen. That is 6.6 percentage points below the national rate of 53.9%.

At Pennsylvania State Constable - Allegheny County, 10 of 11 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 90.9% of this agency's fallen.

Pennsylvania State Constable - Allegheny County

of 11 officers

90.9% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

17,559

of 32,587 officers

53.9% Felonious