Master Trooper David Anthony Deuter

In the mid 1980s I was doing ride alongs with the LaGrange Sheriff’s Dept. That’s when I met Dave and he met his future wife Deb. She was a dispatcher for the Sheriff’s Dept. Looking back they were a great couple both had a great sense of humor.
In 1994 I went to work on the Indiana Toll Road and worked with Dave on countless crashes and traffic control details.
On that terrible day I was a Toll Road Maintenance Supervisor and I was on my way home from the Steuben Maintenance Facility. I heard the call for a crash near the 127 MM numerous 911 calls. This would be on my way home. As I responded they reported a trooper was involved. I knew that I was going to be the first on scene.
I was. As a first responder/firefighter for 34 years that scene is one of two in those years I wish I’d never seen.
Dave was just a super great guy, a huge sense of humor and a big laugh. I was at the Toll Road until it was leased and everyday literally, out in traffic I thought about Dave.
Every time I pass a State Trooper stopped alongside the road, after all these years, I think of Dave and that day.
My god continue to bless Deb and their girls.
Mark McClish

Mark McClish
Former Toll Road Maintenance.

July 16, 2018