Louisiana chapter of Concerns of Police Survivors

January Heroes

'it is not how these officers died that made them heroes. it is how they lived!'
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Paul A. Persigo New Orleans Police EOW 1.7.1973
Deputy Superintendent Louis J. Sirgo New Orleans Police EOW 1.7.1973
Cpl. Betty Smothers Baton Rouge Police EOW 1.7.1993
Lt. Sidney A. Zaffuto Orleans Parish Sheriff EOW 1.8.2004
Chateri A. Payne Shreveport Police EOW 1.9.2019
Ralph G. Hancock East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff EOW 1.10.1972
Ralph D. Wilder East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff EOW 1.10.1972
Alfred L. Celestain New Orleans Police EOW 1.11.2010
Harold J. Powell New Orleans Police EOW 1.11.1955
Duane A. Dalton Louisiana State Police EOW 1.12.2010
Fred Krummel New Orleans Police EOW 1.16.1942
Lee A. Williams, Sr. Shreveport Police EOW 1.17.1931
Lawrence E. Williams Shreveport Police EOW 1.17.1931
Randall L. Benoit Calcasieu Parish Sheriff EOW 1.18.2012
Harold J. Powell New Orleans Police EOW 1.11.1955
Ricky Dodge La. Dept. Wildlife & Fisheries EOW 1.21.1992
Lester H. Johnson New Orleans Police EOW 1.23.1930
J. W. LaCaze Rapides Parish Sheriff EOW 1.24.1909
Stephen C. Newitt Jefferson Parish Sheriff EOW 1.24.1996
Lt. Curtis W. Denton Jefferson Parish Sheriff EOW 1.25.1989
Alan Inzer Calcasieu Parish Sheriff EOW 1.25.2007
Sheriff Louis Ory St. Charles Parish Sheriff EOW 1.26.1903
Sgt.. Frederick 'Rick' Riggenbach Chitimacha Tribal Police EOW 1.26.2013
Barton J. Granier St. John Parish Sheriff EOW 1.27.1996
Ernest Willis Allen Parish Sheriff EOW 1.28.1999
Nicola D. Cotton New Orleans Police EOW 1.28.2008
Carlos Papillion, Jr. St. Landry Parish Sheriff EOW 1.28.2014
Rodney Condall Orleans Parish Sheriff EOW 1.28.2015
Robert E. Cochran Jefferson Parish Sheriff EOW 1.30.1978
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