Officer Richard Keith Martin

Officer Richard Keith Martin, a four-year veteran of the Houston Police Department, was struck down in the line of duty while courageously attempting to apprehend a criminal suspect. He was 47 years of age.

Richard was born on Lakenheath Air Force Base in Suffolk England, on the 28th of July 1967 and served four years active duty in the United States Air Force at Altus Air Force Base in Altus, Oklahoma, and eight years in the Air Force Reserve at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

He joined the Houston Police Department in May of 2010 and graduated 6th in Class #209, in November of the same year. He rapidly rose through the ranks to Field Training Instructor assigned to Westside Command Station.

He is preceded in death by his mother, Annie May Boyett Martin, and leaves behind his two children, Cynthia and Tyler, and their mother Kimberly, all of Katy; his father, Richard F. Martin, of Wanette, Oklahoma; his two sisters, Teresa Wall and her husband Jeff of Norman, Oklahoma, and Karen Taliaferro and her husband Michael, also of Wanette.

Officer Martin will lie in state during visitation from nine o'clock in the morning until eight o'clock in the evening on Thursday, the 21st of May, in the Jasek Chapel of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston.

The funeral service is to be conducted at two o'clock in the afternoon on Friday, the 22nd of May, at Grace Community Church, 14505 Gulf Freeway in Houston, where Bishop Gregory Robinson of Westlake Ward, Houston, Texas, Bear Creek Stake of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is to officiate, and full military and police honors are to be rendered.

On Sunday, the 24th of May, the family will gather for interment at Wanette Cemetery in Wanette, Oklahoma.

In lieu of customary remembrances, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions be directed to The 100 Club of Houston, 5555 San Felipe Street #1750, Houston, TX, 77056.