Donta J. Manuel

How they died

Vehic/Purs

Donta J. Manuel and Jonathan D. Wallace were both deputies with the county, and both killed when struck by a speeding cruiser as they tried to remove stop-spikes from a road. Some said this anti-car-theft action, with canine handlers and a helicopter, was overly aggressive. Eighteen months earlier the county had contracted to provide civic law enforcement after the town's department had been dissolved for wrongdoing.

Why we remember them

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

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