Roll of Honor
Incident
Officer Poor was shot and killed in the town of Sedro Wooley in Skagit County while assisting a United States Customs agent with the investigation of illegal Chinese immigrants. The two officers were walking the group of Chinese back to town when there were ambushed by other Customs agents in a case of mistaken identify. Officer Poor was shot and killed.
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135 years is a long time for a name to go unread. Not today.
Officer Poor served with the King County Sheriff's Office.
Thank you for your service to the Seattle community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Service Record
Incident Details
Officer George W. Poor is one of 10,088 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In WA, 111 of 339 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 32.7% of this state's fallen. That is 1.7 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.
At King County Sheriffs Dept., 5 of 18 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.8% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Accident compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. George W. Poor's cause is highlighted.
How George W. Poor Compares
When Accident Deaths Occur
Monthly distribution of Accident deaths across the full memorial record. George W. Poor is highlighted in Jul.
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