Richard J. Roushorn.
Sergeant Richard J. Roushorn was shot and killed by a truck driver following a minor traffic accident at E. 63rd Street and S. Park Avenue (modern-day S. Martin Luther King Drive). The Chicago Bureau of Transportation truck driver admitted to grabbing Sergeant Roushorn's revolver from the front seat of his car and firing all six bullets at him. Sergeant Roushorn was struck in the abdomen, liver, and chest. He died six hours later at Woodlawn Hospital. The subject was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 14 years in prison. Sergeant Roushorn was a United States Army Air Corps WWII veteran and had served with the Chicago Police Department for over 18 years.
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In tribute
I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Sergeant Roushorn gave the Chicago Police Department 18 years.
Thank you for your service to the Chicago community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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