August Brusius

Death by Force

On February 23, 1907, August F. Brusius, a 33-year-old police officer with the Philadelphia Police Department, was shot and killed while attempting to break up an argument between a man and a woman on Huntingdon Street, near Frankford Avenue. Officer Brusius, who had been with the department for only eight months since his appointment on May 31, 1906, was trying to mediate the dispute when the man involved fled into a nearby house. A crowd of spectators surrounded the house, preventing the suspe ...Read More

Police Officer August F. Brusius