Officer Line-of-Duty Deaths
New Mexico
Line-of-duty deaths of officers serving New Mexico agencies, 2005 to 2026. Source: Officer Down Memorial Page. COVID-19 and 9/11-related illness are excluded from the headline figures.
Deaths (excl. COVID and 9/11)
35
4 COVID-19 and 0 9/11 deaths excluded
Per Million Residents
16.5
2020 Census population
National Rank
#4
of 51, by per-million
Gunfire Share
37%
Of displayed deaths
Deaths by Year
Line-of-duty deaths per year in New Mexico.
2026 is year to date.
By Cause
Share of all recorded deaths including COVID-19 and 9/11 illness where present.
By Agency Type
Which kinds of agency lost officers.
Most Recent Line-of-Duty Deaths
The most recent officers from New Mexico agencies. Each name links to their ODMP memorial.
| 2026 | Joseph Apodaca | Sergeant | Motorcycle crash | Taos County Sheriff's Office |
| 2026 | Michael Schlattman | Sergeant | Struck by vehicle | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office |
| 2025 | Antonio Aleman | Deputy Sheriff | Automobile crash | Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office |
| 2025 | Timothy Ontiveros | Police Officer | Gunfire | Bloomfield Police Department |
| 2024 | Justin Hare | Patrolman | Gunfire | New Mexico State Police |
| 2024 | Jonah Hernandez | Patrol Officer | Stabbed | Las Cruces Police Department |
| 2023 | James M. Sides | Patrolman | Gunfire | Alamogordo Police Department |
| 2023 | Anthony Dale Ferguson | Police Officer | Gunfire | Alamogordo Police Department |
| 2022 | Lawrence George Koren | Undersheriff | Aircraft accident | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office |
| 2022 | Fred Douglas Beers, III | Lieutenant | Aircraft accident | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office |
| 2022 | Michael Adam Levison | Deputy Sheriff | Aircraft accident | Bernalillo County Sheriff's Office |
| 2022 | Robert Eric Duran | Senior Police Officer | Vehicle pursuit | Santa Fe Police Department |
Methodology
Source: the Officer Down Memorial Page. Counts cover officers serving New Mexico agencies whose end of watch fell in 2005through 2026, K9 records excluded. Per-million uses 2020 Census population.
COVID-19 and 9/11-related illness are excluded from the headline figures because ODMP counts both as line of duty and each is a one-time-event tail. COVID dominated 2020 and 2021. The 9/11 cancers concentrate in New York for a 2001 event. Toggle either back on in the charts. Other illness such as heart attacks stays in.