Newport News Police Department, Virginia Fallen Officers

Honoring All Fallen Members of the . . .

Newport News Police Department
Newport News, VA

Captain Robert H. Smith
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Wednesday, June 11, 1919
Cause of Death: Automobile accident

Officer Robert Hayes DeKorte
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Friday, September 23, 1921
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Officer Weldon O. Bass
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Monday, September 25, 1933
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident

Officer Claude T. Parks
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Friday, September 10, 1943
Cause of Death: Motorcycle accident

Officer Charles Nelson Doughty
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Sunday, August 11, 1946
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Officer Clarence E. Small
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Saturday, June 24, 1961
Cause of Death: Automobile accident

Officer Courtney W. Cook
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Saturday, June 24, 1961
Cause of Death: Automobile accident

Officer Wallace Earl Nesbitt
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Thursday, January 8, 1970
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Officer Dennis Jerome Roberts
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Friday, March 20, 1981
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Officer Steven Rutherford
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Wednesday, January 12, 1994
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Officer Larry Bland
Newport News Police Department, VA
EOW: Friday, May 13, 1994
Cause of Death: Gunfire

Total Line of Duty Deaths: 11

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