Felix Mokychic

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections — Mechanicsburg, PA

Felonious

End of Watch March 20, 1979

Age 60

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

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Gender Male

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Incident

Captain Felix Mokychic was beaten to death by an inmate who attacked him with a baseball bat at Graterford State Prison. The inmate had hidden the baseball bat under his prison overcoat as he exited the exercise yard and attempted to gain access to the prison's C-block, where Captain Mokychic was checking passes. When the inmate failed to present a C-block pass Captain Mokychic pushed him to the side and then turned his back to continue checking additional inmates. The inmate then took the baseball bat from underneath his coat and began beating Captain Mokychic over the head with it, stopping several times to check if Captain Mokychic was still breathing. The 28-year-old inmate was sent to prison for life in 1971 for firebombing his ex-girlfriends home killing three people. He was convicted of first-degree murder in connection with Captain Mokychic's death. He was sentenced to death but that sentence was later overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court. This is the last uniformed photo of Captain Mokychic.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and siblings.

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Tributes

28 years. You could have gone home.
Captain Mokychic gave the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections 28 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the people of Pennsylvania. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Captain Mokychic.

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

Agency

Department Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

Location Mechanicsburg, PA

Platform Identity pdcorr.cumberland.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 20, 1979

Tour of Duty 28 yrs

Age 60

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Blunt object; Bat

Offender Death sentence overturned

Captain Felix Mokychic 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 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 6.9 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, 13 of 18 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 72.2% of this agency's fallen.

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

of 18 officers

72.2% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious