Officer Schrameyer was shot and killed after responding to the scene of a shooting involving an off duty officer.

On April 16, 1932 at about 5:30 pm, an off duty officer Guybert Carter heard gun shots in the alley behind his house at 4042 Aldine and went to investigate. As he investigated a man, James Tucker, shot and wounded him. Detective James Scott heard the shots and ran into the alley and exchanged gunfire with suspect Tucker, who sought refuge in a shed. Officers Charles Mohr and Raymond Mayfield arrived and entered the alley from Sarah Street. Sergeant Walter Archibald and Officer George Schrameyer arrived at the shed in their patrol car and were shot by Tucker as they exited the vehicle. Officer Schrameyer fell dead to the street after a bullet passed though his forehead. Suspect Tucker emerged from a gangway and Detective Scott shot him, causing suspect Tucker to fell to his knees. Tucker rose and ran across the street into another alley and then into a yard on Cole Brilliante. Officer Mohr continued to fire at the suspect who again fell to his knees. Finally, officers arrested the suspect for murder and took him to City Hospital. At the hospital it was discovered that Tucker had been shot 6 times, twice in the chest, once each in the back, left leg, and in both arms. Sergeant Archibald and Officer Carter both recovered from their wounds.

The suspect was returned to City Sanitorium where he had been confined for hallucinations. He escaped four times, the last time in May 1928. Sanitorium officials stopped looking for him following a city ordinance that required that a patient's name be removed from the roll after he was missing 18 months.

Officer Schrameyer had been with the agency for 24 years, joining on April 27, 1908, and was survived by his wife and four children. Interred: Memorial Park Cemetery.