OFFICER HONORED: Exactly 50 years to the...
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OFFICER HONORED: Exactly 50 years to the day after reserve Officer George Booker Mogle was gunned down by a prowler, he was honored Wednesday in downtown Los Angeles when his name was officially added to a monument for Los Angeles police officers who died in the line of duty.
“I feel that, at last, he finally got the honor he deserved,” said George Ervin Mogle, 73, the reserve officer’s son, a retired LAPD officer who arrived from Oregon for the ceremony.
Mogle’s name had been left off the Police Memorial Monument in front of Parker Center because until recently the names of reserve officers had not been included on the list, officials said.
Mogle was a reserve officer at the LAPD’s 77th Street Division in the years during and after World War II, when police officers were scarce, his son said.
On the night of July 31, 1946, Mogle was answering a call about a prowler in a residential neighbor when he was shot. He died two days later of his wounds at the age of 46.
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