RALPH MANNING HOY

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Officer Rank: Deputy Sheriff
Memorial Panel: 33-W: 28
Department: DuPage County, Illinois, S.O.
End of Watch: September 27, 1929
Cause: AUTO
Age: 33
Years of Service: Unk
Description: Deputy Sheriff Hoy and Chief Deputy Gordon Leonard were killed in a single-vehicle crash when their patrol car ran off the road and turned over. The deputies were transporting an intoxicated suspect back to the station when the suspect lunged for the wheel and caused the fatal crash. An eyewitness reported that the car made a sudden turn to the left, veered off of the road and flipped over. Deputies Leonard and Hoy both died at the scene of internal injuries.
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