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Code Enforcement Officer

Adam Ray Arbogast

Parsons Police Department — Parsons, WV

Illness

End of Watch November 25, 2021

Age 37

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice

Incident

Code Enforcement Officer Adam Arbogast died from complications as a result of contracting COVID-19 in the line of duty.

Officer Arbogast had served with the Parsons Police Department for one year.

COVID-19 and Law Enforcement

Code Enforcement Officer Adam Ray Arbogast died on November 25, 2021 of COVID-19 contracted in the line of duty. He was 37.

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 daughter.

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Tributes

The country locked its doors. You kept working.
Code Enforcement Officer Arbogast gave the Parsons Police Department 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the Parsons community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Code Enforcement Officer Arbogast.

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

Agency

Department Parsons Police Department

Location Parsons, WV

Platform Identity ppd.tucker.wv.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 25, 2021

Tour of Duty 1 yrs

Age 37

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Illness

Cause Detail COVID19

Code Enforcement Officer Adam Ray Arbogast 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 WV, 1 of 232 officers were lost to illness connected to their service — 0.4% of this state's fallen. That is 8.7 percentage points below the national rate of 9.1%.

Parsons Police Department

of 1 officers

100% Illness

WV — Statewide

of 232 officers

0.4% Illness

Nationwide

2,974

of 32,508 officers

9.1% Illness

National Cause Distribution

How Illness compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Adam Ray Arbogast's cause is highlighted.

Felonious

17,623 (54.2%)

Accident

10,088 (31%)

Illness

2,974 (9.1%)

Cardiac

1,306 (4%)

Undetermined

260 (0.8%)

Suicide

256 (0.8%)

vehicular

1 (0%)

How Adam Ray Arbogast Compares

Age at End of Watch

This officer

Avg for Illness: 47.8 years

Years of Service