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A list of South Florida police officers killed in the line of duty since 1980, as collected by CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald.
Click Here for background on some officers killed, and those who survived.
| Jan. 20, 2011 | 2 Miami-Dade officers were killed while trying to serve a warrant on a violent fugitive. |
| Jan. 8, 2008 | Miami detective James Walker killed in a firefight in North Miami Beach. |
| Nov. 7, 2007 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Paul Rein, 76, gunned down Nov. 7 while transporting inmate in a van from the north jail to court in Fort Lauderdale. |
| Sept. 13, 2007 | Miami-Dade police officer Jose Somohano gunned down by a suspect during a traffic stop. |
| Aug. 10, 2007 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Chris Reyka is shot to death while investigating a suspicious vehicle. |
| Nov. 11, 2006 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Brian Tephford is shot to death during a traffic stop. |
| Feb. 15, 2006 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Ryan Seguin is killed during a traffic stop when he is struck by another car. |
| Aug. 19, 2004 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Todd Michael Fatta is shot in the chest by a suspect during a house raid. |
| April 6, 2003: | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Philip Billings is shot in the head while performing his first security detail. |
| Jan. 6, 1996 | Fort Lauderdale police Officer Bryant Peney is shot to death after an all-night manhunt. |
| Nov. 19, 1992 | Hialeah police Sgt. Pedro Cainas dies several days after being shot in the head while responding to a complaint about a gun-toting man who refused to turn down his radio. |
| Jan. 3, 1992 | North Miami police detective Steven Bauer is shot and killed while escorting two clerks carrying cash drawers to drive-in booths at the Kislak National Bank. |
| June 11, 1991 | Miami Springs Officer Charles Stafford is killed with his own gun during a struggle with a suspected car thief. |
| Nov. 13, 1990 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy Patrick Behan is doing paperwork in his patrol car when someone fires a bullet through an open window that strikes him in the face, killing him. |
| April 27, 1990 | Metro-Dade Officer Joseph Martin is shot to death by an ex-con during a routine traffic stop. |
| Feb. 17, 1990 | Broward Sheriff’s Deputy John W. Greeney is killed in a barrage of gunfire after surprising two robbers at a fast-food chicken restaurant. |
| Nov. 28, 1988 | Metro-Dade Officers Richard Boles and David Strzalkowski are killed with their own service revolvers when a man goes berserk at a Northeast Dade trailer park. |
| June 30, 1988 | Miami Beach undercover Officer Scott Rakow dies the day after he was shot while chasing a suspect in a drug sting. |
| June 21, 1988 | Miami police motorcycle officer William Craig, 37, thrown off his motorcycle in an accident at U.S. 1 and Southwest 67th Avenue, dies after 2 ∏ months in a coma. |
| March 31, 1988 | Miami police officer Victor Estefan, 49, is shot and killed after he tries to make a traffic stop at 36th Avenue and Southwest Eighth Street. |
| Nov. 6, 1986 | Hialeah officer Emilio Miyares, 27, is shot during a struggle with a robbery suspect. |
| Sept. 3, 1986: | Miami officer David Herring, 25, is killed by exhaust fumes in patrol car. |
| June 25, 1986 | Sweetwater officer James K. Beasley, 44, is run down by a fleeing vehicle. |
| June 3, 1986 | Opa-locka officer Ephraim Brown, 29, is shot while struggling with a drug suspect. |
| April 11, 1986 | FBI agents Benjamin Grogan, 53, and Gerald Dove, 30, are killed in a shoot-out with bank robbery suspects. |
| Dec. 21, 1984 | Miami motorcycle patrolman Jose De Leon, 26, is struck by a car while pursuing a suspect. |
| Feb. 25, 1984 | Miami Beach officer Donald Bernard Kramer, 42, is shot by a homeless derelict. |
| Dec. 25, 1983 | Metro officer Robert Zore, 25, is shot in a struggle with a robbery suspect. |
| May 28, 1983 | Metro officer Stephen Corbett, 21, is struck by a car at an accident scene. |
| Sep. 23, 1981 | Metro officer Edward Young is killed instantly after an unmarked patrol car in which he was riding slams into a concrete utility racing to a crime scene. |
| Sept. 2, 1981 | Miami officer Nathaniel Broom, 23, is shot while following a traffic violator. |
| Nov. 5, 1980: | North Miami policeman Carl Mertes, 41, is shot while trying to handcuff a traffic violator. |
