[h=4]Trooper[/h][h=3]Tony Radulescu[/h]Washington State Patrol, Washington
End of Watch: Thursday, February 23, 2012
[h=4]Bio & Incident Details[/h]Age: 44
Tour: 16 years
Badge # Not available
Military veteran
Cause: Gunfire
Incident Date: 2/23/2012
Weapon: Gun; Unknown type
Suspect: Committed suicide
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Trooper Tony Radulescu was shot and killed while making a traffic stop on State Route 16 at Anderson Hill Road, in Gorst, shortly before 1:00 am.
He had radioed in his location and the pickup truck's license plate and description to dispatchers. When dispatchers were unable to contact him for several minutes a Kitsap County sheriff's deputy was sent to check on his status and discovered him laying wounded outside of his patrol car. He was transported to St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma where he succumbed to his wounds a short time later.
The vehicle that Trooper Radulescu had stopped was found abandoned on a country road approximately three hours later. A SWAT team deployed to the registered owner's home and as they approached it the suspect committed suicide.
Trooper Radulescu was a military veteran and had served with the Washington State Patrol for 16 years.
Please contact the following agency to send condolences or to obtain funeral arrangements:Chief John R. Batiste
Washington State Patrol
General Administration Bldg.
PO Box 42600
Olympia, WA 98504
Phone: (360) 596-4000
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I'll update this as info comes available, if someone gets to it before I wake up this evening post up, I'll get the thread title changed appropriately when the trooper's name is released.
Local News | Washington trooper shot and killed in traffic stop | Seattle Times Newspaper
Washington trooper shot and killed in traffic stop
Police have found the pickup driven by the person who shot and killed a Washington State Patrol trooper during a traffic stop. Officers are still looking for the killer.
By The Associated Press
BREMERTON — Police have found the pickup driven by the person who shot and killed a Washington State Patrol trooper during a traffic stop. Officers are still looking for the killer.
Trooper Russ Winger says the truck was on a county road about two miles from where the trooper was shot just before 1 a.m. Thursday on Highway 16 near Gorst, which is near Bremerton, about 20 miles west of Seattle across Puget Sound.
Winger says the trooper had made a traffic stop, radioed the location and license plate number. When he didn't respond to a status check, a Kitsap County sheriff's deputy went to the scene and found the wounded trooper. He was taken to a hospital in Tacoma where he was declared dead.
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