Branch remembers PC Richard Gray

6 May 2026

West Mercia Police Federation will today remember a brave firearms officer who was shot dead as he rushed to the aid of two unarmed colleagues.

PC Richard Gray was killed while attending a domestic disturbance at a house in Shrewsbury on 6 May 2007. He was 43.

Richard, a trained firearms officer and former soldier with five commendations for bravery, had placed himself between the gunman and his two unarmed colleagues.

He was posthumously awarded the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery.