Deputy Sheriff William R. Dils, aged 52, tragically lost his life on November 5, 1977, while investigating a burglary at a residence in North Collins, New York. Deputy Dils, a 19-year veteran of the Erie County Sheriff's Office and a World War II veteran, was responding to a burglary-larceny case on Sherman Road. During the investigation, he was shot once in the abdomen through a closed bedroom door. Despite being transported to a local hospital, he succumbed to his injuries two and a half hours
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