VIRGLE DEWEY KNIGHT JR
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Officer Rank: Detective Corporal
Memorial Panel: 39-W: 6
Department: Douglas County, Oregon, S.O.
End of Watch: July 23, 1985
Cause: AIRC
Age: 35
Years of Service: 8
Description: Detective Corporal Knight, Detective Sergeant Gerald Chirrick and Special Deputy Sheriff Ronald Terwilliger died when their helicopter struck high-voltage power lines and then crashed in the Umpqua National Forest. The officers were leading a raid on a 500 acre marijuana field when the accident occurred.
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