JOHN F DONAHUE
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Officer Rank: Inspector
Memorial Panel: 7-E: 7
Department: Waterbury, Connecticut, P.D.
End of Watch: August 2, 1920
Cause: SHOT
Age: 39
Years of Service: 17
Description: Inspector Donahue was conducting an interview with a woman when a man who planned to file charges against the woman, shot Inspector Donahue. The bullet lodged in his spine and he died of his injuries five weeks later.
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