In the late morning of May 9, 2018, a seemingly routine traffic stop on Route 5 in Newbury, Vermont, took a tragic turn. Twenty-year-old Austin M. Durocher, a White male from Derby, was pulled over by a Vermont State Police trooper for an expired inspection sticker. After the initial interaction, the trooper returned to his cruiser to process the information. It was during these moments that the situation escalated with sudden and devastating finality. While the trooper was occupied, Austin retr
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