Ruben Almanza

Corpus Christi Police Dept. — Corpus Christi, TX

Felonious Veteran

End of Watch July 28, 1984

Age 37

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Gender Male

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Incident

Sergeant Ruben Almanza succumbed to wounds he received when he was shot while searching for a robbery suspect at the 3600 block of Lamont Street. The suspect exited the store brandishing a gun after robbing the store. He stole a vehicle in the parking lot and crashed that vehicle into a parked car and tree on Carroll Lane. He then fled on foot, shooting at officers as he hid in the neighborhood. Sergeant Almaza was standing behind a fence when the suspect shot Sergeant Almanza through the fence from an adjacent yard. The man jumped over the fence and shot him again while he was on the ground. A responding officer attempted to get the suspect to surrender, but when he fired again, he was shot and killed. Sergeant Almanza was transported to Memorial Medical Center, where he died the next day. Sergeant Almanza was a United States Army Vietnam War veteran and had served with the Corpus Christi Police Department for nine years, assigned to the Criminal Investigative Division.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife, three daughters, father, brother, and eight sisters.

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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.
Sergeant Almanza served with the Corpus Christi Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Corpus Christi community, 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 Corpus Christi Police Dept.

Location Corpus Christi, TX

Platform Identity ccpd.nueces.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 28, 1984

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Gun; Unknown type

Offender Shot and killed

Military Service

Ruben Almanza served in the United States military before joining law enforcement. Full service record available on salute.nw.

Sergeant Ruben Almanza 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 TX, 1,463 of 2,421 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.4% of this state's fallen. That is 6.2 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.

At Corpus Christi Police Dept., 7 of 16 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 43.8% of this agency's fallen.

Corpus Christi Police Dept.

of 16 officers

43.8% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,463

of 2,421 officers

60.4% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious