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| Corporal Theopolis Gaines
New York State Police
New York
End of Watch: Friday, January 15, 1932 Biographical Info
Age: 32
Tour of Duty: Not available
Badge Number: Not available Incident Details
Cause of Death: Aircraft accident
Date of Incident: Friday, January 15, 1932
Weapon Used: Not available
Suspect Info: Not available Corporal Theopolis Gaines and Lieutenant Tremain Hughes were killed when their state police airplane crashed in Madison County, New York.
The pilot, Lieutenant Hughes, was following a road when the plane struck an elm tree. The plane crashed and burst into flames. Lieutenant Hughes was trapped in the rear cockpit of the burning plane and Corporal Gaines was thrown from the plane and died instantly. Related Line of Duty Deaths | |
