Fallen officers: Separated by thousands of miles, united by similar dangers

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(CNN)Attacks thousands of miles apart, under different circumstances, have left 19 law enforcement officers dead nationwide this year.

The latest addition to this grim tally was the slaying ofOfficer Sean Bolton, who was shot multiple times over the weekend by a passenger in a car during a traffic stop in Memphis, Tennessee.

"It was found that Officer Bolton apparently interrupted some sort of d--g transaction," Memphis Police Director Toney Armstrong said.

The 19 deaths at the hands of suspects run the gamut -- veterans and rookie officers -- and span the nation -- from Georgia to California.

Add in the officers who died in the line of duty from other causes -- traffic accidents, for example -- and the figure rises to 64 so far this year, according to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund. That's more than in the first half of last year, when 62 officers had been killed.

Here are officers who have died at the hands of violent suspects from January until now:

ARIZONA

ALEX KEE YAZZIE

The Navajo police officer was killed during a shootout with a suspect in March on the border with New Mexico. A veteran, he had served as a police officer for 14 years.

ARKANSAS

RESERVE DEPUTY SONNY SMITH

Smith was shot and killed in May while responding to a burglary call in Johnson County

CALIFORNIA

SGT. SCOTT LUNGER

The father of two served as an officer in Hayward for over a decade before he was fatally shot at a traffic stop last month. He was 48.

OFFICER MICHAEL JOHNSON

Johnson was killed while responding to a report of a man threatening to commit suicide in March. When officers arrived at the scene in San Jose, they were met with gunfire. He was a 14-year veteran.

CINCINNATI

OFFICER SONNY KIM

Kim, 48, was a husband and a father of three. He was fatally shot in June after a man who allegedly planned to commit suicide by cop called 911. Gunfire erupted when he arrived.

GEORGIA

OFFICER TERENCE GREEN

The veteran police detective was killed in an ambush shooting in March after he responded to a call of shots fired in the Atlanta suburb of Fairburn. Green, 48, was shot in the head.

IDAHO

SGT. GREG MOORE

The veteran police officer was the son of a retired captain and served with the Coeur d'Alene Police Department for 16 years. He was shot after he stopped a "suspicious" man at a traffic stop in May.

LOUISIANA

DEPUTY MARSHAL JOSIE WELLS

The 27-year-old was killed in March while serving an arrest warrant on a murder suspect in Baton Rouge. Wells had served with the U.S. Marshals Service for four years. His wife was expecting their first child.

 

 

the list goes on http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/03/us/police-officers-killed-nationwide/

 

 

 

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How come you didn't include my home state, New Mexico?

OT: May they rest in peace