Anthony Donald Wood

How they died

Deadly force

Police were told Wood was making threatening phone calls to his estranged wife at her job in New Jersey. He had been calling his wife, from whom he is separated, and reportedly told her he had been drinking, and he had a loaded 12-gauge shotgun. He said he was going to kill her and then himself. New Jersey Police were notified, and they determined he was making the calls from his home in the 100 block of Pleasant Drive in West Nottingham. Pennsylvania State Police were contacted and went to serve an involuntary emergency commitment warrant to Wood. Police arrived at the house, but Wood would not come out or answer them. Eventually, Wood came out of the house with a shotgun and started walking toward the corner of his property. At that time, Trooper Barry Brinser fired three shots from his "non-lethal AL-6" weapon but did not incapacitate him. He stopped and pointed the shotgun in the direction of Cpl. Martin Henry and Cpl. William White. The troopers fired three shots--Henry fired two shots, White fired one--from their guns at Wood, hitting all three times, killing him.

Why we remember them

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

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