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Terry Mcdowell

Case from Whitehall, OH dated Aug 24, 2001

Victim Details

Terry Mcdowell

Male

White / Caucasian

Whitehall

OH

2001-08-24

35

Terry

Mcdowell

07/04/2026

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On August 24, 2001, Terry McDowell, a 35-year-old male police officer with the Whitehall Police Department in Ohio, was fatally shot while attempting to serve a traffic citation. McDowell and his partner went to the residence of a woman who had driven her husband home from the police station earlier that day after he had been arrested on a DUI charge. When it was discovered that the woman did not have a driver's license, the officers instructed her to walk home. Upon arriving at the residence to ...
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