THOMAS RAYMOND HAYES

Officer Rank: Police Officer
Memorial Panel: 62-E: 27
Department: Columbus, Ohio, Division of Police
End of Watch: January 20, 2011
Cause: SHOT
Age: 61
Years of Service: 8
Description: Police Officer Hayes succumbed to complications of a gunshot wound sustained thirty years prior. On December 18, 1979, while responding to a complaint of two suspicious persons, Officer Hayes attempted to apprehend the suspects when a struggle ensued. One of the suspects grabbed Officer Hayes??® gun and shot him in the back. Officer Hayes was paralyzed from the waist down and died of complications from the injury on January 20, 2011.
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