On a cold February evening in 2006, Virginia State Trooper Kevin Carder Manion, a 27-year-old male, was on duty in Clarke County, Virginia. He was assisting a fellow trooper at the scene of a single-vehicle accident on Route 649. A pickup truck had gone into a ditch and overturned. As the troopers were investigating the crash, a rifle inside the cab of the truck discharged as the vehicle was being moved.
The single round from the rifle struck Trooper Manion in the chest, in an area not pr
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