Roll of Honor
Christopher A. Davis
Incident
Corrections Officers Christopher Davis and Eligio Garcia were killed in a prison bus crash on I-20 near Penwell, Texas, at approximately 7:30 am.
The bus was transporting 10 inmates from a transfer facility in Abilene to the Rogelio Sanchez State Jail in El Paso. The vehicle struck a patch of ice on an overpass, causing it to slide off the highway and down an embankment. The bus then struck a passing train and was dragged along the tracks, breaking apart.
Officers Davis and Garcia, along with eight inmates, suffered fatal injuries at the scene. One other officer and four other inmates were transported to hospitals in critical condition.
Officer Davis had served with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for 17 years.
I think of you often, Chris. Was glad to see you happy before the accident. I miss you and the old times. Love you. Mean it.
Anonymous TDCJ Middleton unit July 4th, 2021
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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Corrections Officer V Davis gave the Texas Department of Criminal Justice 17 years.
Thank you for your service to the Huntsville community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corrections Officer V Davis.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Corrections Officer V Christopher A. Davis 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 TX, 653 of 2,421 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27% of this state's fallen. That is 4 percentage points below the national rate of 31%.
At Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division, 32 of 124 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 25.8% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
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