One of the City of Trenton’s fallen law enforcement officers will have his name placed on the National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial on May. 13.
Trenton Police Chief Rex Ross said the application to have the name of Deputy City Marshal Richard T. Blew included on the memorial has been approved, pending the exact wording to be listed. Ross said that according to news reports and other documentation gathered by the TPD, Blew was responding to a disturbance on Jan. 4, 1877 involving a drunken doctor and attempted to disarm the doctor, who was brandishing a revolver. Blew was shot in the abdomen when the revolver accidentally went off and died two days later on Jan. 6, 1877.
Blew is one of two city law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in Trenton. The other officer already on the memorial, Patrolman Isaac Dilley, died on Dec. 13, 1894.
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