The names of Stephen Mayhle, Eric Kelly and Paul Sciullo II will be added to a somber list of Pittsburgh police officers who have been killed in the line of duty.

Their deaths bring to 62 the number of city officers who died in the line of duty, going back to the 1880s.

The last city police officer to be killed was Sgt. James H. "Rip" Taylor, who was shot five times Sept. 22, 1995. Even though he was not working when he was shot in Lincoln-Lemington, city police officials said Sgt. Taylor died in the line of duty because he was trying to enforce the law when he confronted youths who were scrawling graffiti on a street.

Yesterday's shooting in Stanton Heights occurred just two weeks after four police officers were fatally shot in Oakland, Calif., in the deadliest day for U.S. law enforcement since Sept. 11, 2001.

According to the Officer Down Memorial Page, 33 U.S. police officers have died in the line of duty this year, 11 of them by gunfire. Two other officers have died in the line of duty this year in Pennsylvania.

Detective Chris Jones of the Middletown Township Police Department in Dauphin County was struck and killed Jan. 29 while conducting a traffic stop on Route 1, near the Interstate 95 interchange. Philadelphia police Officer John Pawlowski was shot and killed Feb. 13 after responding to a dispute between a cab driver and a man.

The first Pittsburgh officer to die in the line of duty was Benjamin Evans. He was killed Downtown when he tried to stop an assault.

The 1920s, when 17 officers fell, were the deadliest years on record for city police. Many of those deaths were the result of accidents involving motorcycles, which were introduced to the bureau that decade, according to retired Pittsburgh police Sgt. William J. Burke, chairman of the Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Inc., County of Allegheny.

Until Sgt. Taylor was killed, narcotics Detective Norman A. Stewart was the last city officer to be shot to death, on Sept. 16, 1983. Sgt. James T. Blair was killed in a motorcycle accident Nov. 26, 1990, and Officers Thomas L. Herron and Joseph J. Grill were killed when their police van collided with another during a chase March 6, 1991.

Officer Benjamin Evans -- Aug. 4, 1885
Officer George C. Woods -- Sept. 6, 1886

Lt. John A. Berry -- Feb. 9, 1898
Officer William Scanlon -- 1898
Officer Charles Metzgar -- May 11, 1898

Detective Patrick Fitzgerald -- April 12, 1901
Officer James H. Sheely -- May 18,1902
Officer Andrew J. Kelly -- Oct. 4, 1903
Officer Casper Mayer -- April 1, 1904
Officer George Cochran -- Nov. 13, 1904
Officer James Farrell -- Oct. 3, 1908
Officer William Walsh -- Nov. 5, 1909

Officer Michael Grab -- March 3, 1914
Officer George H. Shearer -- May 12, 1914
Officer Charles H. Edinger -- June 6, 1917

Detective Peter K. Tsaruas -- Nov. 20, 1920
Officer Daniel J. Conley -- Dec. 30, 1922
Officer Edward G. Couch -- Oct. 30, 1922
Officer Casper T. Schmotzer -- Jan. 23, 1923
Officer John Rudolph -- April 3, 1923
Officer Joseph Jovanovic -- July 7, 1924
Officer Joseph J. Riley -- Aug. 3, 1924
Officer Robert J. Galloway -- Aug. 26, 1924
Officer Samuel McGreevy -- Oct. 5, 1924
Officer Charles S. Cooper -- Aug. 17, 1925
Officer Frank Algeo -- May 1, 1927
Officer James F. Farrell -- July 6, 1927
Officer Ralph P. Gentile -- Nov. 1, 1928
Officer John J. Schemm -- Dec. 21, 1928
Officer Stephen Janeda -- July 16, 1929
Officer William Johnson -- Oct. 23, 1929
Officer James Hughes -- Dec. 27, 1929

Officer Orrage N. Murray -- June 25, 1930
Officer Joseph J. Beran -- Jan. 28, 1931
Officer George J. Sallade -- Oct. 5, 1933
Officer Roy W. Freiss -- Feb. 3, 1935
Officer Robert L. Kosmal -- Aug. 17, 1935
Inspector Albert L. Jacks-- April 17, 1936
Officer Charles M. Snyder -- Jan. 25, 1937
Officer George A. Kelly -- Feb. 12, 1937
Officer Edward M. Conway -- June 27, 1939
Officer Anthony E. Rahe -- Aug. 7, 1939

Officer Toby Brown -- Aug. 23, 1941
Officer Louis G. Spencer -- Dec. 24, 1946
Lt. William J. Lavery -- Aug. 5, 1947

Officer William P. Ewing -- Feb. 7, 1953
Officer Edward V. Tierney -- July 28, 1953
Officer William H. Heagy -- March 25, 1954
Officer James V. Timpona -- Oct. 16, 1958

Officer Coleman R. McDonough -- July 5, 1965
Officer Joseph Gaetano -- June 10, 1966

Officer John L. Scott -- Oct. 10, 1970
Officer William J. Otis -- March 3, 1971
Officer Patrick J. Wallace -- July 3, 1974

Officer David A. Barr -- May 3, 1983
Detective Norman A. Stewart -- Sept. 16, 1983

Sgt. James T. Blair -- Nov. 26, 1990
Officer Joseph J. Grill -- March 6, 1991
Officer Thomas L. Herron -- March 6, 1991
Sgt. James H. Taylor -- Sept. 22, 1995

Officer Eric Kelly -- April 4, 2009
Officer Stephen Mayhle -- April 4, 2009
Officer Paul Sciullo II -- April 4, 2009

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Correction/Clarification: (Published Apr. 7, 2009) The name of William Scanlon, a Pittsburgh police officer who died in the line of duty in 1898, was omitted from this list of fallen city of Pittsburgh police officers as originally published Apr. 5, 2009.

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Correction/Clarification: (Published Apr. 9, 2009) The last name of Pittsburgh Police Officer Stephen Janeda, who died July 16, 1929, was misspelled in this list of fallen city of Pittsburgh police officers as originally published Apr. 5, 2009.