Baltimore County Police: Fallen Hero Officer John Stem Is Remembered

Press release from the Baltimore County Police Department:

October 19, 2021

Baltimore County Police Officers will be wearing a memorial ribbon bar on their uniform or a mourning band on their badge today in memory of a fallen hero.

Officer John Stem died on October 19, 2000 of complications of paraplegia caused by a line-of-duty gunshot wound he suffered in July 1977. Officer Charles Huckeba was fatally wounded during the same incident in Precinct 1 Wilkens.

Officers Stem and Huckeba and other officers were trying to subdue an agitated, armed, 19-year-old man who barricaded himself in his family’s home.

Officer John Stem’s name, along with the names of other fallen heroes, is inscribed on a monument at Patriot Plaza in Towson.

This press release was produced by the Baltimore County Police Department. The views expressed here are the author’s own.