Fallen Officers
Since the establishment of the Eugene Police department, three officers have died while in the line of duty. One officer died in 1930 of gunfire, the second died in a motorcycle accident in 1934, and the third officer was shot while pursuing a vehicle into Springfield in 2011 and was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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