Oren Stuart Hindman

South Dakota Highway Patrol — Pierre, SD

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch May 2, 1985

Age 30

Tour of Duty 6 yrs 6 mo

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 4

Incident

Trooper Oren Hindman was stabbed to death by a suspect he had placed in his patrol car on Interstate 90, about a half mile from the Jackson Boulevard interchange in Spearfish. Trooper Hindman had arrested a woman for DUI near Spearfish and provided her boyfriend a ride around 11:30 p.m. During the trip, the woman's boyfriend stabbed Trooper Hindman in the throat from the backseat of the patrol car. Both subjects then fled on foot. Trooper Hindman drove himself to the hospital but died before surgeons arrived. The subject who stabbed him pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. He died in prison. Trooper Hindman was a U.S. Navy veteran and had served with the South Dakota Highway Patrol for 6-1/2 years.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife and daughter.

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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.
Trooper Hindman gave the South Dakota Highway Patrol 6 years.
Thank you for your service to the people of South Dakota, 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 South Dakota Highway Patrol

Location Pierre, SD

Platform Identity sdhp.sd.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch May 2, 1985

Tour of Duty 6 yrs 6 mo

Age 30

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Edged weapon; Knife

Offender Sentenced to life

Military Service

Oren Stuart Hindman served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Trooper Oren Stuart Hindman 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 SD, 36 of 62 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 58.1% of this state's fallen. That is 3.9 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At South Dakota Highway Patrol, 2 of 5 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 40% of this agency's fallen.

South Dakota Highway Patrol

of 5 officers

40% Felonious

SD — Statewide

of 62 officers

58.1% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious