Lance Corporal Bailey was killed in a vehicle accident while attempting to stop a car for speeding on I-85 in Greenville County, South Carolina. Corporal Bailey was attempting to catch up to the speeding vehicle when another car pulled in front of his cruiser. He immediately attempted evasive action to avoid striking the second vehicle, causing his cruiser to go into a skid. The cruiser left the highway down an embankment, striking a stand of trees. Corporal Bailey was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been with the agency for six years and is survived by his wife, parents, and sister.

Wednesday,
April 12, 2000
Vallejo-One of Vallejo's best known, best-liked police officers was shot and killed while serving an arrest warrant Wednesday afternoon. Officer Jeff Azuar, 50, had worked for the department for 21 years. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The man suspected of shooting Azuar was shot by another officer and suffered a punctured lung. Joe Teitgen, 34 was in serious but stable condition at John Muir Medical Center on Wednesday night, authorities said.
Police Lt. JoAnn West get the following account: About 2:30 p.m., Azuar and another officer were serving an arrest warrant for Teitgen on weapons and grand theft charges at his house near the corner of Tennessee and Mariposa streets. Teitgen's wife, who was home with one of the couple's three children, a 3 year old, opened the door to officers. The two officers found Teitgen trying to hide in the garage. A struggle ensued, during which, West said, Teitgen shot Azuar in the head with a handgun. A third officer shot Teitgen.

I was wondering if you could add Ray Southerland to your Lest we forget pages. A very dear friend of mine, worked for the East Baton Rouge Sheriffs Office for 17 years. He passed away April 2, 2000 from a Heart Attack. He was 39 years old.

Sergeant Price died after suffering a heart attack while struggling with an inmate at the Garden State Youth Correctional Facility in Yardville, New Jersey. Sergeant Price was attempting to handcuff the prisoner at the time. The prisoner started struggling and they both fell the floor. Other guards and medical personnel immediately started CPR on Sergeant Price, who was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead approximately one hour later. He had been with the agency for ten years and is survived by his wife and son.

Sergeant Hunt died a day after being involved in an accident while driving his police motorcycle. Sergeant Hunt was driving on U.S. 29 when a pickup truck pulled out from a cross street in front of him. With no time to react, his motorcycle struck the pickup truck, causing him to suffer serious internal injuries. He was transported to a local hospital where he died early the next day. He had been with the agency for six years and is survived by his wife.

BALTIMORE 04-21-00: A 27-year-old police officer who was critically injured in a collision with a shooting suspect died on Friday. Police said the officer, six-year veteran Kevon Gavin, was trying to stop the Ford Bronco the suspect was driving when the crash occurred just after 8 p.m. Thursday. Officials at the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where Gavin was hospitalized with a massive head injury, said he died Friday afternoon. 
Gavin was trapped in the wreckage for about one hour as rescue workers tried to free him. Firefighters were summoned to extinguish a blaze caused by the crash, which virtually flattened Gavin's cruiser.
The shooting suspect, Eric Stenett, 17, was apprehended at the scene. Police said he was wearing a bulletproof vest. A 10 mm Smith and Wesson semi-automatic pistol was recovered from the Ford Bronco, police said.
Police initially had gone to Pulaski Street and Wilkins Avenue for reports of shooting. Officers saw a suspect shooting at someone. Then the suspect fled in the Bronco.
Police said evidence recovered at the scene of the earlier shooting matched the gun found in the Bronco.
The shooting victim, Anthony Dorsey, had a graze wound on his leg and refused treatment.
Charges against Stenett were pending, but police said he would be charged as an adult. He was hospitalized late Friday from injuries in the crash.
''This was not an accident by any stretch, said Acting Police Commissioner Edward Norris. ''This was a murder in the commission of a felony.''
Sgt. Scott Rowe, a police spokesman, said investigators reported that Stenett could have avoided Gavin's cruiser.
''He chose, apparently, not to do so,'' Rowe said.
Gavin, an officer with the Southwestern District, worked on the police department's Flex Squad, which responds as needed to crimes throughout the city.

I've just lost a dear friend..A young police officer from the Bellingham, Washington police dept. Ryan King..He was a victem of a 'self inflected' gun shot wound.. He was in training at Quantico Va. and he was assigned to the DEA.. At this time I do not know how this happened as he was shot in his groin. His estranged wife has left the country for Peru..They were in the
process of divorcing and Ryan took the job with the DEA..It's impossible to talk with his estranged wife for any details, funeral arrangements.

CARBONDALE, Pa., April 20 – Carbondale patrolman Dan Morris was making what appeared to be a routine traffic stop on Route 106 just before 3 a.m. Thursday, but what happened turned out to be anything but routine. The driver pulled a gun and shot Morris in the chest. STATE AND LOCAL police have been searching all day long for a red Aries-K or Cavalier type car and its driver who is wanted for shooting Morris. The manhunt started just after 3 a.m. when Morris stopped a red sedan on a lonely stretch of Route 106 near Carbondale. The car had no tags. As Morris approached the car the driver opened fire with a .22 caliber handgun, hitting Morris in the chest. Fortunately the patrolman was wearing his bulletproof vest.
Carbondale Police Chief Dominick Andidora said, “he took one round dead center to the chest. The bulletproof vest stopped it. Had he not had the vest on, I don’t know what would have happened.” Officer Morris fired three shots in return as the sedan drove away. Investigators say this serves to point out that even in something as simple as a police traffic stop there is imminent danger. State Trooper Bill Satkowski said, “we always know the threat is out there, we pray it doesn’t happen, and we pray when it does … unfortunately it happened this morning.” Tonight police are searching for the red sedan and its driver, a thin white male in his 30s with shoulder length hair and possibly a mustache. Police ask that anyone with information about the shooter to call either their local or state police. Officer Morris was taken to Community Medical Center in Scranton. He is in stable condition and is expected to be released.

On 04/06/2000, Deputy Sheriff Linda Rowe of the Martin County Sheriff's Office was struck by a vehicle while directing traffic at the scene of a traffic fatality. D/S Rowe received injury to leg, hip, and back and is listed in stable condition. D/S Rowe will be hospitalized for an unknown period of time. Please remember Linda Rowe in your prayers for a speedy recovery. Please also remember her husband D/S Charlie Rowe who is also a member of the Martin County Sheriff's Office as he helps Linda through her recovery. Please remember that it is not always a gun or a knife that can hurt us!

U.S. Park Police Officer Shot
A U.S. Park Police officer who stopped a car on a Northwest Washington street because it had just one license plate was hospitalized after he was dragged perhaps 100 feet and shot in the jaw. A Park Police spokesman said two officers stopped the car on Rock Creek Ford Road near the Ibex nightclub in Northwest Washington at about 0300 EDT Thursday morning 04-12-00, only to notice drug paraphernalia in the car. The officers ordered the men to get out. Instead, the driver gunned the car, one of the officers reached in to try to get the ignition key, became entangled and was dragged about 100 feet before the car crashed. The two suspects then fled on foot. Both Park Police officers gave foot chase, as did an off-duty D.C. police sergeant. One Park Police officer and the off-duty sergeant struggled with the men, one of whom produced a gun. It discharged once, striking the Park Police officer in the jaw. He was in serious but stable condition in the MedStar unit of the Washington Hospital Center. The two suspects still refused to surrender. A police dog subdued the gunman with several
bites to the leg. He was also hospitalized.

ENGLAND: Three police officers were shot and another was injured on Thursday by armed robbers who held up a Barclays Bank. The officers were hit by pellets fired from a sawed-off shotgun in the robbery at the Westhoughton branch near Bolton, Greater Manchester, Thursday morning. The robbers escaped with a quantity of cash in a car. The suspects blasted the shotgun through the rear window at a fourth officer causing him to fall over and hurt himself. A number of customers were in the Market Street bank when the masked offenders burst in with three guns and demanded the cash. The officers were treated in hospital for minor injuries after being struck by the spray of shotgun pellets.

I regret to inform the list that Officer Jason W. Cammack of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's Division of Motor Vehicle
Enforcement was killed in a single-vehicle crash at approximately 23:00 EDT Sunday night 04-23-00. Officer Cammack, who was driving a marked unit, apparently lost control of his vehicle while attempting to catch up to a traffic violator. Officer Cammack was airlifted from the scene and taken to the trauma center at the University of Kentucky Hospital, but his injuries were too severe to survive. He was 26, and married with one child.

It is with great sadness that I must report the loss of yet another fellow Law Enforcement Officer.
Gang Detective Darryl Black, 33, was shot and killed at about 1225am, this date. He and his partner Detective Rick Delfin were driving along a street in the central Long Beach area, near Pacific Coast Highway when they came under heavy rifle fire. Darryl and Rick were both shot several times. Rick was able to broadcast that they had been hit and Officers from all over the city rushed to the area. Several Officers rescued Darryl and Rick and rushed them to Long Beach Memorial Hospital where the ER Staff worked hard on both for some time. 
Darryl did not survive his wounds. Rick is in serious - stable condition.
No suspects are in custody at this writing.
Darryl had worked for the Long Beach Police Department for about 6 1/2 years. Before that he was an Orange County Deputy Sheriff, and before that, a United States Marine.
Darryl was not married and had no children. His immediate family lives in Michigan. Darryl's extended, Police, family is grieving deeply and will miss him considerably.

Niceville Police Department
04/07/00 K-9 Teka had just located a small amount of marijuana in a vehicle on a traffic stop along SR20 in Niceville. After finding the marijuana, she was struck by a passing van. The van never stopped. The handler and another officer left the stop and one of their patrol vehicles and rushed Teka to the Emergency Vet Clinic. She was dead before she got there. She had a hell of a nose and was our partner. We will not forget her.

On Saturday 29-4-00 Senior Constable Craig REARDON of the Lake Macquarie Local Area Command was shot in the upper chest and arm by an offender using a single barrel shotgun. He and his partner were responding to a domestic call, luckily he was wearing his vest. He is recovering in Hospital. The offender turned the weapon on himself shortly after shooting Craig. A Coronial Inquest will be held into the death of the offender. Craig is 40 years old with wife and kids.