Officer Michael Reedy was accidently shot when he ran into the line of fire between a pharmacy clerk and burglars.

On October 26, 1902, Officer Reedy was accidentally shot at a pharmacy at 10th and Cass Avenue, by a clerk at a pharmacy who was shooting at burglars. Hearing the shots, Officer Reedy unintentionally ran into the line of fire and was struck in the chest by one of the bullets fired by the clerk that lodged in one of his lungs. In his ante-mortem statement, Officer Reedy exonerated the clerk of any wrong doing. He was pronounced dead at City Hospital at 8:00 pm on October 28, 1902.

Officer Reedy was survived by his sister and had been with the agency for six years. Interred: Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, St. Louis, MO.