Levi Neal

Bryan Police Department — Bryan, TX

Felonious

End of Watch February 24, 1900

Age 49

Tour of Duty 20 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 5

Incident

Deputy City Marshal Levi Neal was shot and killed while escorting a man to jail. He had arrested the man and while walking towards the jail the man pulled out a pistol from under his coat and shot Neal. Neal is the one of the early African American law enforcement officers to be killed in the line of duty in Texas. He had previously survived a shootout on May 15, 1885 that took the life of Bryan deputy city marshal Levin P. Smith, Jr. On December 2, 1888, Neal was with Bryan City Marshal M. M. Wilcox when he was killed attempting to serve a warrant. The 53-year-old subject who murdered him was sentenced to life in prison. He died in prison May 17, 1904. Neal had been in law enforcement for about 20 years. He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Bryan City Cemetery. His grave site could not be located but a marker commemorating his service was later erected.

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20 years. You could have gone home.
Deputy City Marshal Neal gave the Bryan Police Department 20 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Bryan community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy City Marshal Neal.

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

Agency

Department Bryan Police Department

Location Bryan, TX

Platform Identity bpd.brazos.tx.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch February 24, 1900

Tour of Duty 20 yrs

Age 49

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Offender Died in prison

Deputy City Marshal Levi Neal 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 Bryan Police Department, 5 of 6 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 83.3% of this agency's fallen.

Bryan Police Department

of 6 officers

83.3% Felonious

TX — Statewide

1,463

of 2,421 officers

60.4% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious