George A. Rose Jr. was a 40-year-old Los Angeles Police Department officer who died on December 9, 2001, of complications from a gunshot wound sustained in a 1992 parking-lot shooting. The original incident occurred when a woman sought protection from her abusive husband; the husband followed her to the department parking lot and opened fire. Officers returned fire, the suspect fled but was later captured, and during the exchange Officer Rose was struck in the head by a stray bullet that was later determined to have been fired by a fellow officer.

Officer Rose was three years into his LAPD career at the time of the shooting. He received immediate medical care and spent the following nine years in critical condition and under rehabilitation but never fully recovered. The suspect was charged for initiating the attack; investigators concluded Officer Rose’s wound was an accidental shooting by another officer.