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Texas Deputy Killed In On-Duty Crash
The Houston Chronicle via YellowBrix
October 26, 2010
KOUNTZE, Texas — A veteran Southeast Texas sheriff’s deputy is dead after his car slammed into trees and caught fire while he was returning from a prisoner transfer.
Authorities say 43-year-old Liberty County Sheriff’s Deputy Odell McDuffie Jr. was dead at the scene of the 1 p.m. accident Monday on Farm Road 770 near Saratoga, about 60 miles northeast of Houston.
Deputy Sheriff Odell McDuffie Jr.
Liberty police spokesman Hugh Bishop tells KFDM-TV in Beaumont that McDuffie was returning to Liberty from delivering a juvenile suspect to the Hardin County Detention Center when he apparently overcorrected on a swerve. That sent his patrol car into a grove of trees, where it burst into flames.
Bishop says McDuffie had been a deputy in Liberty County for almost 17 years.
WACollector
over 2 years ago
764 Comments
Rest In Peace, Brother.
revCCBeasley
over 2 years ago
2944 Comments
RIP
Anonymous
over 2 years ago
R.I.P. Brother
Sheepdog1
over 2 years ago
480 Comments
RIP brother
Straightshooter
over 2 years ago
1708 Comments
Rest in Peace Officer. My Prayers for your Family, friends and coworkers.
Book_Em_Mandie
over 2 years ago
6758 Comments
Rest In Peace Deputy McDuffie
philfroggy
over 2 years ago
1564 Comments
Rest in Peace Brother
swifterthanu
over 2 years ago
2 Comments
Another victim of the "Exploding Crown Vic's" RIP brother
medic75
over 2 years ago
12 Comments
RIP
Gombino
over 2 years ago
2660 Comments
Rest in Peace Brother. My prayers for your family and co-workers.
fnmurphy
over 2 years ago
230 Comments
Damn Shame!
Sheriff_1
over 2 years ago
8032 Comments
Rest In Peace
Anonymous
over 2 years ago
Rest in peace. God Bless you and your family.
HEYSARGE
over 2 years ago
16802 Comments
RIP.....
pipnosher
over 2 years ago
6 Comments
Rest in Peace, Officer McDuffie.