Police Officer Dale C. Stone
Phoenix Police Department
Arizona

End of Watch: Monday, December 28, 1970
Cause: Motorcycle accident

Biographical Info
Age: Not available
Tour of Duty: 1 year, 2 months
Badge Number: 1697

Officer Dale Stone was killed in a motorcycle accident while responding to an officer down call put out when Officer Albert Bluhm was shot and killed.

Officer Stone collided with another vehicle and was pinned underneath it. Bystanders lifted the vehicle off of Officer Stone in an attempt to save him but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officer Stone's father, a Maricopa County Sheriff, was shot and killed three weeks after this incident.

 
Photograph: Police Officer Dale C. Stone

Patch image: Phoenix Police Department, Arizona

Visit Police Officer Stone's memorial at www.ODMP.org