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Samuel Mangiamele • Trooper – District 3 (District Chicago) • Served - June 13, 1942 to May 25, 1945
Trooper Mangiamele succumbed to injuries received five days earlier when his police motorcycle went out of control on loose gravel at...
Charles J. Deans • Trooper – District 13 • Served - January 1, 1940 to August 8, 1944
Trooper Deans was killed in a motorcycle accident while transferring a motorcycle from Benton to Duquoin. The motorcycle experienced...
Phillip B. Guinto • Sergeant – District 2 • Served - September 1, 1930 to August 5, 1943
Sergeant Guinto was killed in a motorcycle accident on Route 20 near Volo, Illinois. He had lost control of his motorcycle and skidded...
Ralph R. Newman • Trooper – District 13 • Served - October 20, 1937 to August 20, 1941
Trooper Newman was killed in a motorcycle accident while on patrol near the town of Buckner at 1200 hours. A vehicle attempted to make a...
Rocco Gragido • Trooper – District 4 (District Chicago) • Served - November 11, 1930 to September 11, 1940
Trooper Rocco Gragido was killed when his police motorcycle was struck by a vehicle that had run a red light at 63rd Street and Archer...
Eugene Roberts • Trooper – District 2 • Served - August 8, 1937 to February 18, 1940
Trooper Eugene Roberts was struck and killed by a vehicle while working a commercial vehicle weight enforcement detail on Route 34 near...
Albert Cecil Brokmyer • Trooper – District 13 • Served - March 17, 1933 to November 19, 1939
Trooper Cecil Brokmyer succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained two days earlier in Carrier Mills while attempting to arrest a man for an...
Frank Tamulis • Trooper – District 13 • Served - March 6, 1936 to August 9, 1937
Trooper Tamulis was killed in a motorcycle accident while on patrol on Southwest Highway near Oak Lawn. He struck the back of a truck...
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....
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