Roll of Honor
Incident
City Marshal Michael Keathley died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.
Marshal Keathley was a United States Navy veteran and served with the City of West Police Department for 22 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
City Marshal Michael Allen Keathley died on September 2, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 63.
He is one of 884 officers honored here.
Beginning in early 2020, law enforcement officers across the country contracted COVID-19 in the course of their duties. While much of the nation sheltered at home, they kept answering calls, making arrests, transporting prisoners, and working face to face with the public. There was no distance to be had from the job.
Corrections officers were hit hardest. Confined facilities and large populations meant constant, close, unavoidable exposure.
Survivors
He is survived by his wife and three daughters.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
City Marshal Keathley gave the West Police Department 22 years.
Thank you for your service to the West community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, City Marshal Keathley.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Michael Allen Keathley served in the Navy (1975â1979) before joining law enforcement.
City Marshal Michael Allen Keathley is one of 2,974 officers lost to illness connected to their service across the full record of this memorial — 9.1% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In TX, 204 of 2,421 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 8.4% of this state's fallen. That is 0.7 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.
National Cause Distribution
How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Michael Allen Keathley's cause is highlighted.
How Michael Allen Keathley Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Michael Allen Keathley is highlighted in Sep.