May 18, 1980: Miami police Lt. Edward McDermott suffers a fatal heart attack while assigned a communications command post on the onset of the 1980 Miami riots.

July 24, 1979: Metro-Dade police officer William Askew suffers a fatal heart attack while struggling with a juvenile suspect following a foot chase.

July 11, 1979: Sheriff's detention deputy Joseph Conte, 47, was slain when he was ambushed during an inmate escape.

May 16, 1979: Metro-Dade police officer William C. Cook, 25, is slain by a berserk man who also shot his wife, a neighbor and two other officers.

Sept. 19, 1978: FHP Trooper Alvin V. Kohler is shot and killed assisting a disabled motorist on Florida's Turnpike in Miami.

August 1978: Robert Hugh Milligan, 54, a 25-year veteran of the Hollywood Police Department, was killed while trying to serve an eviction notice for the sheriff's office.

Aug. 4, 1978: Pompano Beach officer Roy Lacy, 32, was shot while he was off duty. He died the next day. His wife, Ethel Mae, was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

April 2, 1978: Coral Gables officer Louis Pena, 41, is shot after stopping a man driving a stolen car.

Feb. 14, 1978: FHP Trooper Elmer C. Barnett is struck and killed by a car on a traffic stop in Miami.

Nov. 12, 1977: Fort Lauderdale Sgt. Gregory Connors, 30, a motorcycle officer, was killed when struck by a car answering a call.

Aug. 4, 1977: FHP Trooper Bradley Steven Glascock is shot and killed on a traffic stop on State Road 836.

April 19, 1977: Dania patrolman James Taylor Thomas, 26, was killed when he walked into a convenience store during a robbery.

April 1, 1976: The deadliest day for Miami-Dade police: Three officers, Frank K. D'Azevedo, Clark Curlette and Thomas A. Hodges Jr., are shot dead at a motel while working a stolen drivers license case.

Feb. 20, 1976: Florida Highway Patrol trooper Phillip Black of Pompano Beach, and visiting Ontario Provincial Police Cpl. Donald Irwin, both 39, were killed in a shootout at the Deerfield Beach rest stop on Interstate 95.

Aug. 5, 1974: DEA agents Nicholas Fragos and Charles Mann and several others die when the roof of the Miami Field Division office collapses.

July 21, 1974: Fort Lauderdale officer Demetri Walter Ilyankoff, 40, was shot three times when he responded to a burglary call at a restaurant.

May 21, 1974: Metro-Dade police officer Simmons Arrington, 31, is shot and killed when he tries to settle a domestic dispute.

May 18, 1974: Metro-Dade police Sgt. Harrison Crenshaw, 33, is shot to death by a motorist.