 | Reserve Deputy Thomas B. Dunigan
Deputy Dunigan was shot and killed while attempting to stop a bank
robbery suspect. He was off duty visiting the county jail when the bank
robbery call through. Deputy Dunigan took a reserve patrol car and
responded to the scene. Another deputy spotted the suspect vehicle
heading in the opposite direction but could not turn around to follow it due
to snow in the median. The deputy transmitted the suspect's direction and
Deputy Dunigan waited for the suspect at an exit. Several minutes later a
passerby made a radio transmission that an officer had been shot. Deputy
Dunigan was found by other officers with a shotgun wound to the head.
The suspect was later apprehended and sentenced to 20 years for the bank
robbery and life for the murder of Deputy Dunigan.
Deputy Dunigan had been with the agency for 18 months and was
survived by his wife, two daughters, and son.
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