Los Angeles Police Department, California
End of Watch Saturday, October 22, 1994
Add to My HeroesCharles Dean Heim
Officer Charles Heim succumbed to a gunshot wound sustained the previous day while participating in a narcotics investigation.
The suspect committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound and was simultaneously shot by a SWAT team member.
Officer Heim was a U.S Army veteran and had served with the Los Angeles Police Department for 11 years. He was survived by his expectant wife.
Bio
- Age 33
- Tour 11 years
- Badge 24265
- Military Veteran
Incident Details
- Cause Gunfire
- Incident Date Friday, October 21, 1994
- Weapon Gun; Unknown type
- Offender Committed suicide
Most Recent Reflection
View all 76 ReflectionsChuck, there is so many memories working the Buy Team! Going to the Dodger games, meeting your son who was only about five years old at the time ! You running like a Gazelle as we chased down suspects running through the projects after they sold to our UCs! You changing the carburetor, modifying the manifold and tuning up the green pea so suspect’s couldn’t out run us after selling to our UCs! The time you hoped the train chasing the suspects that were in a stolen black mustang on Blyth Street! I broadcasting that you were heading towards Bakersfield in pursuit of the suspects on the train! You falling off, cracking your ribs and coming to work a few days later! Then one morning you came into the office and told me I had to come for a ride with you to listen to this song by Alabama! Cotton on roadside Cotton in the ditch! Chuck, Brother in Blue! Sorry so long to tell my story about you but in my life it was the hardest thing I had to endure losing you as a friend and partner! Chuck the Western Dance Hall in Lancaster, if your sisters read this? The time you sent the band member head over heals out of his Limo! One more that’ll get you Laughing, the time the suspect ran out of the back of the bar after making a sell to our UCs getting checked and landing in a shopping cart!
Think about all the time Brother, Keven Whelchel LAPD Detective retired!!!
Detective Keven Whelchel
LAPD Narcotic Buy Team
November 24, 2024
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