Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis
Fallen Officers

Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis

Section Title: Fallen Officers
Table Section Text: None

Cause of deaths	Number of deaths

Aircraft accident	1

Animal related	3

Automobile accident	7

Assault	6

Electrocuted	5

Fall	3

Gunfire	89

Gunfire (Inadvertent)	5

Heart attack	3

Motorcycle accident	9

Struck by streetcar	7

Struck by train	2

Struck by vehicle	7

Structure collapse	2

Vehicular assault	12

Total	172

Sentence(s)

172 officers in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department died in the line of duty, 89 of them from gunfire, and three from heart attacks.

final_sentence: 172 officers in the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department died in the line of duty, 89 of them from gunfire, and three from heart attacks.