Sheriff's Officer Dies in Wreck

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A criminal investigator with the Franklin County, Tennessee Sheriff's office was killed in a car wreck while on duty Friday, reports WAFF 48 News.

The two-vehicle accident occurred at about 12:45 p.m. on Highway 64 in Franklin County, the news station reports.

The investigator, Jerry Crabtree, died in the accident. He served as Sheriff in Madison County in the early 1970's.

The driver of the other vehicle was injured and taken to the hospital for observation.



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Lieutenant Shot and Killed During Traffic Stop

The AP via YellowBrix

January 29, 2010
PHOENIX – A Phoenix-area policeman was shot and killed during a traffic stop, and two suspects were wounded in a high-speed chase that erupted in gunfire, authorities said.

Lt. Eric Shuhandler, a veteran of the Gilbert Police Department, was shot Thursday night near Mesa at about 11 p.m. Thursday and rushed to a hospital where he died, said Gilbert police spokesman Sgt. Mark Marino.

The suspects’ vehicle was spotted nearby minutes later and a high-speed chase began along Highway 60, with several police cars pursuing the pickup east through Phoenix-area communities.

Several shots were fired and the two suspects were hit multiple times, Marino said.

“During the pursuit, the suspects shot at officers,” Marino said. “One or two (police) cars were disabled but no officers were hit.”

The chase ended near Superior, about 50 miles east of central Phoenix, as officers from four police departments converged on the suspects’ truck.


Lieutenant Eric Shuhandler
The two male suspects were taken into custody and hospitalized.

Both were shot in the lower extremities and were in stable, non-life-threatening condition Friday morning, according to Lt. Steve Harrison of the Arizona Department of Public Safety. The men’s names were not released.

Marino said authorities were trying to determine what prompted the original traffic stop and why someone in the suspects’ vehicle allegedly opened fire.

The violence occurred about 12 minutes into the traffic stop.

Marino said his understanding was Shuhandler was hit by one bullet.

He was the second Arizona law officer to die in the line of duty in recent weeks.

Department of Public Safety officer Chris Marano was struck and killed last month by another officer’s patrol car while he was laying down spike strips to stop a vehicle during a high-speed freeway chase in Phoenix.

Harrison said Shuhandler had been with the Gilbert Police Department 16 years.
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Ohio Chief Found Dead

The AP via YellowBrix
January 27, 2010

ROSS, Ohio — A suburban Cincinnati police chief has died after being found slumped inside his cruiser during an investigation.

Officer Gary Vaughn in Butler County’s Ross Township say Chief Carl Worley was 57 and had been helping in the search for a suspect early Tuesday afternoon when an officer found him unresponsive in the car.

Worley was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

An autopsy is scheduled for Wednesday to determine the cause of death.

Worley entered law enforcement only in the 1990s, when he made a career switch. He became police chief more than six years ago.
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ODF President Joins Haiti Medical Mission

The Hope for Haiti, an organization formed to bring aid and comfort to Haiti following January’s devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake, plans to deploy its first reconnaissance mission from February 7 to February 14.

“Airports outside of Port-au-Prince are now re-opening in the earthquake-stricken country,” says Executive Director Andrew Putman. “The Hope for Haiti will provide medical and missionary support to the forgotten victims in those areas.”

The Hope for Haiti reconnaissance team will search for and set up a home base outside Port-au-Prince. Then TH4H will join organizations such as Hope International Medical Missions, Aslan Youth Ministries, and Global Samaritan Resources and bring aid and relief to the devastated nation.

“Haiti doesn’t just need help this week or this month,” Putman adds. “This will be a long-term, ongoing problem.”

OurMission
A not-for-profit organization, The Hope for Haitiwill provide and improve healthcare for Haitian orphanages and outlying villages with few-to-no resources.

For further information, to volunteer, or to schedule an interview with Executive Director Andrew Putman, please call 325.998.2771 or email: thehopeforhaiti@yahoo..com

On the web:http://www.thehopeforhaitionline.com

Officer Down Foundation President Chaplain Dave Fair will be part of the advance team to Haiti.


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N. J. Officer Killed

A 16-year veteran of the Delaware River Port Authority Police Department died early yesterday after he was hit while rushing across the Walt Whitman Bridge to help another officer who was handling a car accident.

About 1:30 a.m., Cpl. Christopher Milito, 40, of Media, left his car in the 300 block of Packer Avenue and was running across the five-lane highway when a Nissan Altima driving east on the bridge hit him.

Milito died about 2 a.m. at Cooper University Hospital in Camden. He was not married and had no children, a DRPA representative said.
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Florida Deputy Killed

BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- After killing two women and leaving two others fighting for their lives Thursday afternoon, John Kalisz slipped through a police dragnet, authorities said, and roared north out of Hernando County on U.S. 19.

By the time he was captured hours later, another person was dead - a Dixie County sheriff's captain.

Carrying two loaded shotguns, Kalisz told his brother in Clearwater by phone that he would kill as many deputies as possible, Hernando sheriff's officials said.

Dixie County deputies in two unmarked vehicles followed him on U.S. 19 out of Old Town and tried to pull him over, said Capt. Evan Sullivan of the Levy County Sheriff's Office.

Kalisz pulled into a BP station at the intersection of U.S. 19 and County Road 351 in Cross City, Sullivan said, and came out shooting, hitting Dixie County sheriff's Capt. Chad Reed in the face.

Reed, 33, died Thursday night at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, according to Sullivan, who said he had been asked by Dixie County Sheriff Dewey H. Hatcher Sr. to handle media requests.

After Reed was shot, fellow deputies shot Kalisz. He also was taken to Shands. His condition was not available late Thursday night.

"The good news is that he's been apprehended. The bad news is that we have an officer who has been shot," said Hernando County sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt. Donna Black. "We were very afraid that was going to happen."

Reed, who formerly worked as the county's emergency management director, was married with two young children, said Kathy McKinney of the Dixie County Advocate newspaper. McKinney's brother-in-law is a major with the Dixie Sheriff's Office.

"It's so sad," she said.

Sullivan said Reed recently graduated from the FBI National Academy.

"Capt. Reed was a fine man, a great law enforcement officer and a hometown boy in Dixie County," Sullivan said.

Kalisz, 55, is alleged to have killed two women and seriously wounded two other women - a pregnant teenager and a home health care nurse - in a rural neighborhood north of Brooksville.

Hernando Sheriff Richard Nugent had few details on what led to the shootings other than that it was an apparent domestic dispute.



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Trooper Killed

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa. --

The search for a man sought in the fatal shooting of a Pennsylvania State Police trooper Wednesday has ended after he and his wife were found dead inside the house where the trooper was shot.

A bulletproof vest remained lying in the snow where state police said Trooper Paul G. Richey, 40, was shot after arriving at a house on Bredinsburg Road just outside Oil City in Cranberry Township, Venango County.

Venango County Deputy Coroner Chris Hile said the trooper -- a 16-year veteran, husband and father of two young children -- was taken to UPMC Northwest Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.


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Texas Officer Killed in Wreck

ARLINGTON — An Arlington motorcycle officer died early Wednesday in a wreck involving a school bus near Arlington High School, said Tiara Ellis Richard, a police spokeswoman.

The crash occurred shortly after 7 a.m. near South Cooper Street and West Inwood Drive.

The officer was identified by Arlington police spokeswoman Tiara Ellis Richard as Craig Story.

Neither the bus driver nor the nine passengers aboard the Arlington school district bus were hurt, said Amy Casas, spokeswoman for Arlington schools.
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Louisiana Officer Killed

A Louisiana trooper was killed in a two-car collision last night (Jan. 12) near Moss Bluff, according to The Advertiser.

Trooper Duane Dalton was driving his unit south on U.S. Route 171 at approximately 7:30 p.m. when a driver pulled out in front of him.

The 39-year-old was a senior trooper with Troop D in Lake Charles and is survived by his wife and three sons.
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Officer Dies in Line of Duty

Story by wdsu.com

NEW ORLEANS --

New Orleans Police officer Alfred Celestain died from injuries he suffered in a weekend car crash after doctors took him off life support.

Celestain was involved in a car crash Saturday in the Central Business District, authorities said.

The crash happened at about 4 a.m. at the corner of St. Charles Avenue and St. Joseph Street.

Celestain was initially taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, investigators said.
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Corporal and K-9 Killed in Crash

January 10, 2010
MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — A Mishawaka policeman and his police dog have died in a traffic accident in the northern Indiana city.

Mishawaka Police Chief Mike Samp says 42-year-old Cpl. James Szuba (SOO’-buh) and his dog Ricky died Saturday night.

Szuba was providing assistance on a call when the squad car was sideswiped by another vehicle.

Samp says the officer was using lights and siren on his car when the accident occurred. However, a witness, Dale Edmiston, told WSBT-TV that Szuba’s emergency lights were on, but not his siren.

A news release from the St. Joseph County Prosecutor’s Office says the second vehicle was driven by 31-year-Shawn Devine of Mishawaka.
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