Trooper Henry Murray Brooks, Jr., Virginia State Police, Virginia

Trooper Henry Murray Brooks, Jr.

Virginia State Police, Virginia

End of Watch Sunday, June 10, 1956

Henry Murray Brooks, Jr.

Trooper Henry Brooks was struck and killed by an automobile while investigating a vehicle crash on U.S. 29, three miles south of Altavista in Pittsylvania County.

Another vehicle entered the area and struck the rear one of the parked cars before striking Trooper Brooks and three citizens. Trooper Brooks was transported to a hospital in Lynchburg where he succumbed to his injuries.

The driver of the vehicle who struck him was charged with manslaughter.

Trooper Brooks was both a U.S. Marine Corps veteran WWII and a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War.

Bio

Age 29
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Military Veteran

Incident Details

Cause Struck by vehicle

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Time may have passed but you are not forgotten. I believe as long as someone remembers you or speaks your name, you are still with us.
Thank you for your heroism.
GOD Bless

Detention Officer A.Zambito
Texas

June 15, 2015