Archives: Fallen Officers

Kenneth E. Marshall

Officer Kenneth E. Marshall was probably pursuing a violator, investigators later determined, when his patrol car skidded on a rain-slicked roadway and struck a light pole. Another patrol officer reached the scene minutes after the crash, but found the 31-year-old patrolman had been killed instantly. Marshall graduated from the CHP Academy in 1962 and served in the San Francisco Area before transferring to the Humboldt Area in 1965.

Merle L. Andrews

Officer Merle L. Andrews was pursuing a stolen vehicle whose driver was the subject of an all-points-bulletin sought on robbery and kidnapping charges. Andrews stopped the suspect and radioed for back-up, then approached the vehicle with his weapon drawn. The driver opened fire killing the 39-year-old patrol officer. The gunman fled, but was captured a few hours later. Andrews was a member of the Patrol for nine years.

Charles R. Lilly

Officer Charles R. Lilly and his partner had just pulled over two traffic violators. Lilly was standing at the driver’s door of one of the stopped vehicles when a passing car struck and killed him. The killer of the 30-year-old patrol officer then fled but was apprehended within minutes. Before joining the CHP in 1965, Officer Lilly had served with the San Francisco Police Department.

John F. Frey

In the pre-dawn hours of October 28, 1967, Officer John Frey, a member of the Oakland Police Department for 18 months, made a car stop and proceeded to conduct a warrant check. He requested a cover unit and Officer Cliff Heanes arrived at the scene shortly afterward.

They requested two occupants of the vehicle, a male and a female, to exit the car. The officers separated the two for questioning. While interviewing the two subjects, both officers were shot. While their assailants fled, the officers called for help. The responding officers found Frey shot in the chest, stomach and leg, and Heanes shot in the chest, knee and arm.

It is believed that Heanes shot and wounded the male suspect, who later showed up at a local hospital with an abdominal wound.

Frey died at the scene. Heanes recovered and returned to duty.

He was survived by his wife and daughter.

William D. Hoyt

Deputy Hoyt was shot and killed in the Lake County Courthouse when three prisoners being led to a courtroom attempted to escape. The three, who were shackled to each other, attacked another deputy, grabbed his gun and opened fire. Deputy Hoyt, who was not armed, was shot in the chest. Before he collapsed he managed to stagger to a counter where he obtained a gun kept below it, and returned fire, wounding one of the prisoners. Other officers who heard the shots subdued the prisoners.

James W. Waygood

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy James Waygood was assigned to the Firestone Park Station at the time of his death. He was riding as the passenger in a patrol car driven by Deputy John Lawton when they went into pursuit of a suspicious vehicle. With red lights and siren on, the patrol car collided with another car in an intersection. The driver of the other car was transported to the hospital where he died from his injuries. The deputies had to be freed from the wreckage. Deputy Waygood died a couple hours later. Deputy Lawton needed surgery but survived.