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Darius Quimby was an American police officer who is recognized as the first known law enforcement officer to be killed in the line of duty in the United States. Constable Quimby worked for the Albany County Constable's Office of New York. He was killed on January 3, 1791. He may have been an unpaid peace officer.

Constable Quimby was killed while attempting to arrest a man named Whiting Sweeting of Stephentown, New York on a trespassing warrant. A 1790 census lists a Darius in the family of Ephraim Quimby there and of an age eligible to be a constable. Sweeting was convicted of murdering Constable Quimby in the July session of the New York State Supreme Court and hanged on August 26, 1791.

References

1. Hanging of Whiting Sweeting for the murder of Constable Darius Quimby

Sources

• "Constable Darius Quimby, Albany County Constable's Office, New York". The Officer Down Memorial Page, Inc. Retrieved 10 August 2024.
• https://web.archive.org/web/20090201171548/http://reservepolice.org/History_of_Reserves.htm
• https://web.archive.org/web/20140710161814/http://www.villageofshorewood.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7B679B50AE-E6F1-4332-BB6A-FB101F9E6173%7D

External links

• The narrative of Whiting Sweeting : who was executed at Albany, the 26th of August, 1791. : Containing, an account of his trial before the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of New-York, at the July term, 1791, for the murder of Darius Quimby

• 1791 deaths
• American police officers killed in the line of duty
• Deaths by stabbing in New York (state)
• People from Stephentown, New York
• People murdered in New York (state)