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Corporal Thomas O. Gillilan | Alabama Department of Public Safety, Alabama Alabama Department of Public Safety, Alabama

Corporal

Thomas O. Gillilan

Alabama Department of Public Safety, Alabama

End of Watch: Wednesday, July 1, 1970

Bio & Incident Details

Age: 38

Tour: Not available

Badge # Not available

Cause: Gunfire

Incident Date: 6/28/1970

Weapon: Officer's handgun

Suspect: Not available

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Corporal Gillilan was shot when a man he had stopped for speeding on U.S. 331 south in Crenshaw County, overpowered him, took his pistol, and shot him. He died three days later at a Montgomery hospital.

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Today it is 38 years since you joined St. Michael's Police
Patrol in heaven. It is often said that those streets are paved with gold and peaceful, but it is not the peaceful streets of heaven that the fallen patrol it is the violent streets of earth that the fallen once again patrol. If not the case they would not have been given wings. I know that in many
an officers life are the moments where they were snatched instantly from harms way. It is those moments that the fallen
are on the job, ever vigilant in their sense of duty to the thin blue line.
So today Corporal Gillian I thank you for your continued service to protect and as the mother of a police officer I ask that you continue to watch over my son as he works his
beat on these mean streets.
Thank You from the bottom of my heart on behalf of all police every where.


July 1, 2008

 

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