Thomas Edwin Royds

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Emergency responders were called shortly after 3 a.m. to a collision involving two cars in the westbound lanes of I-76. The trooper was speaking with one of the drivers when a sport utility other drove up on the right shoulder and hit the trooper and three firefighters as well as one of the cars. The trooper and two firefighters were injured. Another firefighter, Thomas Edwin Royds, was killed. The driver, Jacquelyn Walker, was charged with vehicular homicide while driving under the influence, aggravated assault by other, reckless endangering and other counts.

Why we remember them

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

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