Matthew Hare

Easley Police Department — Easley, SC

Accident

End of Watch August 2, 2023

Age 22

Tour of Duty 5 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 3

Incident

Police Officer Matthew Hare was struck and killed by an Amtrak train near the 2000 block of East Main Street while attempting to pull a suicidal subject from the railroad tracks.

The subject had called 911 at about 5:00 am while suffering a mental crisis. Officer Hare and another officer located the subject on the tracks at about 6:00 am as the oncoming train approached. The officers were removing the subject from the tracks when Officer Hare was fatally struck. Neither the other officer nor the subject was injured.

Officer Hare had graduated from the police academy only five months earlier. He s survived by his mother, brother, aunt, grandparents, cousin, and stepsister.

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Permanent identifier: BO-US-SC-2281390A
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Added to badge.nw: April 2, 2026
Last updated: July 23, 2026

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Police Officer Hare served with the Easley Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Easley community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Hare.

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

Agency

Department Easley Police Department

Location Easley, SC

Platform Identity epd.pickens.sc.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch August 2, 2023

Tour of Duty 5 mo

Age 22

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Police Officer Matthew Hare 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 SC, 137 of 438 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 31.3% of this state's fallen. That is 0.3 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.

At Easley Police Department, 1 of 4 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 25% of this agency's fallen.

Easley Police Department

of 4 officers

25% Accident

SC — Statewide

137

of 438 officers

31.3% Accident

Nationwide

10,088

of 32,508 officers

31% Accident