Irvin M. Brown

Nueces County Sheriff's Office — Corpus Christi, TX

Cardiac

End of Watch February 13, 1995

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 8

Incident

Lieutenant Brown suffered a fatal heart attack while driving the agency's DARE vehicle, a 1987 Ford Escort, down the JFK Causeway. The vehicle struck the guardrail, traveled several hundred feet, then crossed over the median and struck another car head-on. The driver of the other car was the mother of a police officer and was critically injured in the accident. Lieutenant Brown had been in charge of the DARE program since 1987.

Survivors

He was survived by his wife.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Lieutenant Brown served with the Nueces County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Corpus Christi community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Lieutenant Brown.

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

Agency

Department Nueces County Sheriff's Office

Location Corpus Christi, TX

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

Service Record

End of Watch February 13, 1995

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Cardiac

Lieutenant Irvin M. Brown is one of 1,306 officers lost to cardiac events in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 4% of all 32,508 officers honored here.

In TX, 88 of 2,421 officers were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 3.6% of this state's fallen.

At Nueces County Sheriff's Office, 1 of 9 officers on record were lost to cardiac events in the line of duty — 11.1% of this agency's fallen.

Nueces County Sheriff's Office

of 9 officers

11.1% Cardiac

TX — Statewide

of 2,421 officers

3.6% Cardiac

Nationwide

1,306

of 32,508 officers

4% Cardiac