Bio & Incident Details
Age: 33
Tour: 8 years
Badge # Not available
Cause: Stabbed
Incident Date: 1/10/1977
Weapon: Edged weapon; Shank
Suspect: Not available
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Lieutenant Peter Burd was supervising about 125 inmates at the Stateville Correctional Center dining area when he was stabbed in the neck, severing the carotid artery, by a passing inmate. An eight-inch shank was found near the site of the attack.
Lieutenant Burd had served with the Illinois Department of Corrections for eight years and was survived by three children.
