Beaumont Police Department, Texas
End of Watch Sunday, December 6, 1925
Add to My HeroesJames A. Davis
Officer James Davis was killed while attempting to stop a team of runaway horses that were pulling a wagon.
Officer Davis observed the animals entering a busy street and attempted to stop them to save citizens. Part of the wagon struck Officer Davis, causing severe head and internal injuries.
He was transported to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries the next day.
Officer Davis was survived by his wife and stepson.
Bio
- Age 49
- Tour Not available
- Badge Not available
Incident Details
- Cause Animal related
- Incident Date Saturday, December 5, 1925
Most Recent Reflection
View all 10 ReflectionsThis was my great grandfather. This story has been told to me since I was young, and now I patrol the same streets that he, my father, and now my brother, son and I patrol today. I talked about it in shift-meeting this morning. He was also employed as a milk inspector before he became a police officer. A runaway ice-wagon got away and he tried to stop it, being hit in the chest with the horse-drawn wagon's yoke. He died the next day. My grandmother said she remembered as a young child hearing him struggling to breathe as they visited him in the hospital.
Sergeant T.L. Bean
Beaumont PD
December 5, 2017
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