Bio & Incident Details
Age: 50
Tour: 24 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 4/16/1932
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Committed to sanatorium
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Officer Schrameyer was shot and killed after responding to the scene of a shooting involving an off duty officer. The off duty officer had heard gun shots in the alley behind his house and went to investigate. As he investigated a man shot and wounded him. Officer Schrameyer and several other officers responded to scene and as they exited their patrol cars the man opened fire, fatally wounding Officer Schrameyer and wounding two other officers. The man was finally apprehended after being shot six times. He was returned to a sanatorium from which he had escaped from four previous times.
Officer Schrameyer had been with the agency for 24 years and was survived by his wife and four children.
