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Ray Embree • Trooper – District 9 • Served - December 16, 1935 to October 15, 1936
Trooper Embree was killed in an automobile accident while returning to the district headquarters in Springfield. He and a Secretary of...
Leo J. LaVelle • Trooper – District 7 • Served - March 8, 1933 to November 24, 1934
Trooper Leo LaVelle succumbed to injuries received in a motorcycle crash two months earlier while on patrol on Route 80 near Rapids City....
Joseph Merritt Elliott • Trooper – District 8 • Served - April 6, 1933 to October 20, 1933
Trooper Elliott was killed in an automobile crash while he and another officer returned to the district headquarters in Peoria, Illinois....
John L. McCabe • Trooper – District 4 (District Chicago) • Served - February 11, 1933 to August 12, 1933
Trooper John L. McCabe was killed in a motorcycle crash while on patrol on Roosevelt Road near the Cook-DuPage County lines. An oncoming...
Richard Groja • Trooper – District 3 (District Chicago) • Served - March 16, 1933 to May 28, 1933
Trooper Richard Groja was killed in a motorcycle accident. Trooper Groja was responding to a call in Chicago when he failed to show up....
Grady L. Sutton • Trooper – District 12A (District 19) • Served - November 1, 1929 to June 30, 1932
Trooper James Grady Sutton and Chief Daniel Law, of the Harrisburg Police Department, were shot and killed during an arrest. As Trooper...
Kenneth L. Church • Trooper – District 1 • Served - March 18, 1924 to December 5, 1931
Trooper Kenneth Church was killed in a motorcycle accident on Route 2 near Dixon, Illinois. He was returning from a funeral escort in...
Frank M. Schwartz • Trooper – District 2 • Served - December 18, 1929 to September 11, 1930
Trooper Frank M. Schwartz succumbed to injuries received four days earlier in a motorcycle accident while on duty. Trooper Schwartz was...
Robert J. McDonald • Trooper – District 11 • Served - November 11, 1929 to July 10, 1930
Trooper Robert J. McDonald was killed in a motorcycle accident during a pursuit on Troy Road in Edwardsville. Trooper McDonald's...
Robert L. Fisher • Trooper – District 10 • Served - April 1, 1924 to April 24, 1929
Trooper Robert Fisher was killed in a motorcycle accident on the Dixie Highway four miles south of Hoopeston. He was following a bus...
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