RONALD TSUGIO TSUKAMOTO
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Officer Rank: Patrol Officer
Memorial Panel: 37-E: 16
Department: Berkeley, California, P.D.
End of Watch: August 20, 1970
Cause: SHOT
Age: 27
Years of Service: 1
Description: Officer Ronald Tsukamoto had just issued a warning to a motorcyclist when he was shot and killed. The suspect walked up to Ofc. Tsukamoto and the motorcyclist, spoke briefly to Ofc. Tsukamoto, and without warning drew a handgun and shot Ofc. Tsukamoto twice at close range, fatally wounding him. As the suspect fled to a waiting car, the motorcyclist used Ofc. TsukamotoŸ??s radio to call for help. Thirty four years later, Berkeley Police investigators identified and arrested a suspect, though charges were never brought in the case. Ofc. Tsukamoto was the first Berkeley Police Officer to be killed in the line of duty.
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