Police Clerk Thomas J. Dillon
Baltimore City Police Department
Maryland

End of Watch: Monday, July 12, 1926
Cause: Gunfire

Biographical Info
Age: 41
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available

Clerk Dillon and Officer Webster Schumann 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.

Clerk Dillon was survived by his wife.

 
Photograph: Police Clerk Thomas J. Dillon

Patch image: Baltimore City Police Department, Maryland

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