Herschel Turner

How they died

Pursuit

Officer Herschel Turner stopped to help a Bellefontaine officer on a traffic stop. As Turner helped the Bellefontaine officer with that traffic stop, a different Bellefontaine police officer was pursuing a suspect allegedly driving a stolen other. The driver of the stolen other was going westbound on Chambers Road and arrived at the traffic stop where Turner was, crashing into a Moline Acres Police Department patrol car. When the Bellefontaine police officer, who was chasing the stolen other came over the hill on Chambers Road, he tried to avoid the wreck. The officer swerved and hit and killed Turner on the sidewalk.

Why we remember them

This record exists so that Herschel Turner, and all who are named in this archive, are never reduced to a number.

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