Police Officer George Schrameyer

Officer Schrameyer was shot and killed after responding to the scene of a shooting involving an off duty officer. The off duty officer had heard gun shots in the alley behind his house and went to investigate. As he investigated a man shot and wounded him. Officer Schrameyer and several other officers responded to scene and as they exited their patrol cars the man opened fire, fatally wounding Officer Schrameyer and wounding two other officers. The man was finally apprehended after being shot six times. He was returned to a sanatorium from which he had escaped from four previous times.