Roll of Honor
Incident
Police Officer Tracy Gaines died from complications as the result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty while assigned as the SRO at Rockwall High School.
Officer Gaines was a U.S. Air Force veteran and had served with the Rockwall Police Department for 15 years.
COVID-19 and Law Enforcement
Police Officer Tracy Allen Gaines died on August 3, 2020 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 49.
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 two sons.
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Tributes
The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Police Officer Gaines gave the Rockwall Police Department 15 years.
Thank you for your service to the Rockwall community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Police Officer Gaines.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
Agency
Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Tracy Allen Gaines served in the Air Force (1989â1999) before joining law enforcement.
Police Officer Tracy Allen Gaines 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. Tracy Allen Gaines's cause is highlighted.
How Tracy Allen Gaines Compares
When Illness Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Illness deaths across the full memorial record. Tracy Allen Gaines is highlighted in Aug.