MAY 2023 - Blues Vol 39 No. 5

HONORING OUR FALLEN

HONORING OUR FALLEN HEROES SENIOR POLICE OFFICER TREVOR ABNEY DEPUTY SHERIFF JOSH OWEN NEW ORLEANS POLICE DEPARTMENT, LOUISIANA POPE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE, MINNESOTA END OF WATCH SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2023 AGE: 34 TOUR: 7 YEARS BADGE: N/A Senior Police Officer Trevor Abney succumbed to complications from a gunshot wound sustained on October 30th, 2020. He and his partner were stopped at the intersection of St. Philip Street and Royal Street when a passenger in a passing pedicab opened fire on them without provocation. Officer Abney was struck in the left side of his face, and his partner suffered cuts to his arm from the shattered windshield. Officer Abney was transported to the University Medical Center New Orleans where life-saving measures were performed. Doctors were unable to remove the bullet, which remained lodged in his brain and blinded him in the left eye. He succumbed to complications of the wound on April 9th, 2023. Officer Abney was a United States Army Iraq War veteran and had served with the New Orleans Police Department for seven years. He is survived by his wife and parents. END OF WATCH SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 2023 AGE: 44 TOUR: 12 YEARS BADGE: N/A Deputy Sheriff Josh Owen was shot and killed while he and another deputy attempted to arrest a man for domestic violence in the 400 block of Stromen Street in Cyrus at about 7:30 pm. Deputies, as well as police officers from the Glenwood Police Department and Starbuck Police Department, had been dispatched to the house for reports of a domestic violence incident. The officers were attempting to place the man into custody when he opened fire on them. Deputy Owen and the subject were both fatally wounded. The other deputy and the Starbuck officer were injured. The incident occurred on Deputy Owen’s 44th birthday. Deputy Owen was a Minnesota National Guard Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran and had served with the Pope County Sheriff’s Office for almost 12 years. He is survived by his wife, son, and parents. His father is a retired law enforcement officer. 90 The BLUES POLICE MAGAZINE The BLUES POLICE The MAGAZINE BLUES 91