Pawtucket Police Department, Rhode Island
End of Watch: Monday, June 30, 1958
Age: 56
Tour of Duty: 30 years
Badge Number: Not available
Cause of Death: Gunfire
Date of Incident: June 30, 1958
Weapon Used: Handgun; .38 caliber
Suspect Info: Committed
Patrolman Emil Newberg and Detective Lieutenant Thomas Truesdale were both shot and killed as they tried to disarm a suicidal man who had barricaded himself in a bathroom with a pistol.
The suspect, 35, walked away from a veterans mental hospital in Brockton, Mass., on October 21, 1957. He was committed to a Providence mental hospital, where he died in 1983.
Patrolman Newberg had served with the Pawtuckett Police Department for 30 years. He was survived by his wife and six children.