Police Officer Webster E. Schumann
Baltimore City Police Department
Maryland
End of Watch: Tuesday, June 29, 1926
Cause: Gunfire

Biographical Info
Age: 31
Tour of Duty: 5 years
Badge Number: Not available

Officer Schumann and Clerk Thomas Dillon were shot and killed when they responded to reports of a former mental patient who had shot a men in the neck. When the officers arrived at the scene the man began shooting indiscriminately, wounding four citizens and five officers. Officer Schumann was able to return fire and killed the suspect.

Officer Schumann died the following day. Clerk Dillon, who's spinal column had been severed, died two weeks later.

Officer Schumann had been with the agency for five years.