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Police Officer Mary Lynn Beall | Dayton Police Department, Ohio Dayton Police Department, Ohio

Police Officer

Mary Lynn Beall

Dayton Police Department, Ohio

End of Watch: Sunday, August 25, 2002

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 43

Tour: 3 years

Badge # 214

Cause: Gunfire

Incident Date: 5/15/2000

Weapon: Handgun; .30 caliber

Suspect: Murder charges pending

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Officer Mary Beall succumbed to a gunshot wound received on May 15, 2000, when a suspect she was attempting to negotiate with shot her execution style.

She and several other officers had responded to a call of a man firing a gun at his girlfriend. When they arrived, they encountered the armed suspect. As other officers covered her, Officer Beall knelt down and re-holstered her service weapon, in an attempt to talk the man into surrendering. As she did so, the suspect stuck his .30 caliber handgun in her neck and fired. Officer Beall's partner and other officers returned fire, wounding the suspect.

The suspect was charged with several counts from the initial incident and sentenced to 76 years in prison; he died in prison from natural causes in 2010.

The wound to Officer Beall caused paralyzation from the neck down. She had undergone over a dozen surgeries since the incident prior to her passing away.

Officer Beall had been employed with the Dayton Police Department for three years at the time of the shooting. She is survived by her husband, also a Dayton Police Officer, a son, and two daughters and is buried in Calvary Cemetery, Kettering, Ohio.

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Officer Beall,
Its been a while since you have left this earth, but I think about your story all the time. I have used your story as encouragement and motivation over the past years, especially to help get me where I am now. I continue to pray for your family and friends each day that passes and know that you are looking down on all law enforcement officers everywhere.

Rest in peace Officer Beall; YOU are a true hero and inspiration for myself and to so many others!

Ofc. N. Sears
EPD, FL
November 14, 2011

 

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