Officer Down

Corporal David Gogian
Topeka Kansas Police Department
End of Watch: Sunday, December 16, 2012
Age: 50
Tour: 8 years, 3 months
Badge # 408

Police Officer Jeff Atherly
Topeka Kansas Police Department
End of Watch: Sunday, December 16, 2012
Age: 29
Tour: 1 year, 8 months
Badge # 155

Corporal David Gogian and Police Officer Jeff Atherly were shot and killed while checking on a suspicious vehicle in a grocery store parking lot, on the 1400 block of SW Huntoon Street, shortly after 6:00 pm.

Several minutes after making contact with the multiple subjects in the vehicle one them opened fire, fatally wounding Officer Atherly and Corporal Gogian. A third officer on the scene was not wounded. The subject who opened fire fled in the vehicle. He was located in a home on Third Street where he barricaded himself for several hours. He was eventually shot and killed after exiting the home while carrying a firearm.

Corproal Gogian was a U.S. military veteran and had served with the Topeka Police Department for eight years.

Officer Atherly had served with the Topeka Police Department for just under two years.

Rest in Peace Gentlemen…We Got The Watch
Day is done, Gone the sun, From the lake, From the hills, From the sky. All is well, Safely rest, God is nigh.