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Officer Daoud Mingo

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Officer Daoud Mingo

Wednesday, December 13, 2023

On this day in BPD history, December 13, 2023, we lost our brother, Officer Daoud Mingo, to an accident on October 27, 2015, while participating in a funeral escort for a recently deceased Baltimore City Police Officer.

On October 27, 2015, Baltimore City Police Motor Officer Daoud Mingo was involved in a departmental accident while participating in a funeral escort for a recently deceased Baltimore City Police Officer. Officer Mingo suffered serious injuries from this accident and remained hospitalized for a long time while healing and going through rehab.

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Officer on Motorcycle Critically Injured while Guiding Funeral Procession

By COLIN CAMPBELL and JESSICA ANDERSON

PUBLISHED: October 28, 2015 at 9:50 a.m.
UPDATED: July 1, 2019 at 4:57 p.m.

A Baltimore police officer guiding a funeral procession on a motorcycle was critically injured in a crash Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore County, police said. The officer, a 15-year veteran of the city Police Department, was taken to the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where he was listed in critical condition, Baltimore County police spokesman John Wachter said. The officer was not identified.

The officer was guiding the procession for the funeral of city police officer Joseph Tracy, who died off duty last week, city police said. The procession was heading to Dulaney Valley Memorial Gardens in Timonium. The officer was driving north in the 7100 block of Belair Road in Overlea about 1:15 p.m., when a black Jaguar in the opposite lane turned left onto Madeline Avenue, crossing into the motorcycle’s path, and the two collided, county police said.

The force of the crash threw the officer off the motorcycle, into the air, and into a mailbox on the sidewalk, two witnesses said. Donna Waddell and Marty Sprecher, who work at nearby A1 Bill & Earl’s Transmissions, said they had come outside to watch the funeral procession just before they witnessed the crash. A woman driving the Jaguar had been waiting for the procession to pass and tried to turn left through a gap in the cars, Waddell said. The officer, who had been near the back of the procession, had pulled alongside the cars and was driving to the front to stop traffic at an upcoming intersection, she said. “He didn’t even see her,” Waddell said. “It was horrible. It was really horrible.”

Tony Brown, a transport and detail employee at Overlea Motors across the street, said he was in a car warming up the engine when he heard the crash. “I heard a bang. I looked up, and I saw the officer fly in the air,” he said.

County police are investigating.

Belair Road was closed between Taylor Avenue and Northern Parkway for hours Tuesday before being reopened.

MARYLAND NEWS

Police Officer In Critical Condition After Funeral Procession Accident

OCTOBER 27, 2015, 5:05 PM

OVERLEA, Md. (WJZ) -- A police officer is in critical condition after being injured while leading a funeral procession. Police say a car collided with his motorcycle in the seventy-one hundred block of Belair Road in Overlea. The officer, who is actually from Baltimore City and is a 15-year veteran of the force, was taken to Shock Trauma with serious injuries.

The driver of the other car was not injured. The crash is under investigation.

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Baltimore City officer injured in Overlea crash
Motorcycle officer taken to Shock Trauma

Updated: 6:44 PM EDT Oct 27, 2015

Saliqa Khan

WBALTV.com writer

SOURCE: WBAL-TV\SkyTeam 11

OVERLEA, Md. —

A Baltimore City police motorcycle officer is in critical condition after a crash Tuesday afternoon in Baltimore County. Emergency crews were called around 1:15 p.m. Tuesday to the 7100 block of Belair Road in Overlea. County police said the officer was traveling north on Belair Road when a car turned into its path onto Madeline Avenue, causing a collision.

The officer, a 15-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was taken to Shock Trauma. The officer was taking part in a funeral procession for Officer Joseph Tracy. Belair Road was shut down between Taylor Avenue and Northern Parkway until about 4 p.m.

No further details have been released.

The Baltimore Sun Wed Oct 28 2015 72

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Sergeant James Purcell

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On this day in Baltimore Police History 24 October 1955, we lost our brother Sergeant James Purcell to gunfire based on the following

Officer William Martin

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Officer William Martin
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On this day in Baltimore Police History 10 October 1989, we lost our Brother Police officer, William Martin, to gunfire based on the following:

Two Central District officers were shot, one fatally, while responding to a complaint of narcotics being sold in an apartment building in the 1500 block of Pennsylvania Ave. Officer William J. Martin, 38, a ten-year veteran, entered the building and walked up a flight of stairs to the second-floor landing, where he encountered a 20-year-old suspect who shot him twice in the head, and once in the left shoulder. He died at the Shock Trauma Unit at University Hospital. Detectives believe that the suspect ran to the lower level in an attempt to escape through a rear door when he encountered Officer Herman L. Brooks, Jr., 36. The two-year veteran and the suspect exchanged gunfire. Officer Brooks was struck twice, once in the chest and the other in his left ring finger. He was treated for his wounds and recovered. The suspect was wounded in the abdomen during the exchange of shots with Officer Brooks. He was treated for his wounds and recovered. As the suspect left the apartment through the back doors and onto the parking lot with injuries from Officer Brooks, a young rookie officer by the name of Officer Robin Johnson took him into custody. Officer Johnson was able to take the suspect into custody without further incident.

Central District officers had responded to two previous calls at that address earlier that morning, one call was a narcotics complaint, and the second was for a disorderly person. As he made an attempt to flee the building, officers also detained a suspect who was 21 years old. Officers recovered a .38 caliber Colt automatic from the lower level hallway. The departmentally issued soft-body armor, according to the University Hospital doctors, saved Officer Herman Brooks, Jr.'s life.

As his brothers and sisters of the Baltimore Police Department, we will not let him be forgotten, His service Honored the City of Baltimore, and the Baltimore Police Department may he rest in peace, and may God bless him.

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Name	Description
End of Watch	10 October, 1989
City, St.	1500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue
Panel Number	37-E: 1
Cause of Death	Gunfire
Weapon	- Handgun
District Worked	Central

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Officer Alfred Bobelis

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Officer Alfred Bobelis
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On this day in Baltimore Police History 14 Feb 1954 we lost our brother, Police Officer Alfred Bobelis, to an auto accident based on the following;

On February 14, 1954, Officers Alfred Bobelis, and Marvin March, were dispatched to an accident at the intersection of Hanover and Randall Streets. Upon arrival at the scene, one of the drivers of the vehicles (Calvin Lucky) fled the scene for lack of a driver's license, Officer Marvin gave chase. Officer Bobelis stayed back to handle the accident and to direct traffic due to the inclement weather, and low visibility. While directing traffic at that intersection, Officer Bobelis was struck by an automobile that was being operated by Earl L Kirkley Sr., a 46-year-old Baltimore florist living in the 3400 block of Greenmount Avenue. Officer Bobelis was struck hard enough to throw him through the air with such force that when he landed, the impact was so strong it would fracture his skull and both legs.

Officer March succeeded in catching, and arresting Calvin Lucky, and he was on his way back to the accident scene when he saw that his partner had been struck and mortally wounded. Knowing his partner was probably dead and there was little he could do, he rushed him to South Baltimore General Hospital, where he would be pronounced dead on arrival.

Kirkley would eventually be convicted of manslaughter, and numerous other traffic violations. He was sentenced to three years in prison. Over the next few months, he would lose several appeals to overturn his conviction, but in December of 1954, Judge Michael J Manley in criminal court noted that he had received a number of letters attesting to Kirkley’s good character, and that defense attorneys had disclosed that a civil settlement approaching $50,000 had been made to the Bobelis’ family. With this, Judge Manley reduced Earl L. Kirkley’s sentence to time served, and imposed a $1000 fine with court costs for vehicular manslaughter in the death of Patrolman Alfred Bobelis.

Officer Bobelis was survived by his wife, Emma Bobelis, and their daughters, 21-year-old Constance, and six-year-old Emily.

We, his brothers and sisters of the Baltimore Police Department, will not let him be forgotten. God bless you and rest in peace.