Louis Michael Bonacasa
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Special Agent

Louis Michael Bonacasa

Veteran → Felonious
End of Watch December 21, 2015
Age 31
Tour of Duty 7 yrs
Gender Male

Incident

Location: Overseas Weapon: Explosives; Improvised device Offender: Suicide bomber

Special Agents Joseph Lemm, Louis Bonacasa, Chester McBride, Michael Cinco, Adrianna Vorderbruggen, and Peter Taub were killed by a suicide bomber in a village near Bagram Air Base Afghanistan. Two U.S. Air Force Security Forces airmen who were with them were wounded in the attack.

The agents and airmen were conducting a joint patrol as part of an investigation when the bomber drove a motorcycle into them and detonated the explosives.

Special Agents Lemm and Bonacasa were posthumously promoted to the rank of special agent within the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations.

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I served 1985 to 1993. You served too, before the badge - different uniform, same idea. You go where you are sent and you do not get to pick the call.
Special Agent Bonacasa gave the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations 7 years.
Thank you for your service. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993

Agency

Type Federal Agency
Location Quantico, Prince William County, VA
Platform Identity usafosifed.fed.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 21, 2015
Tour of Duty 7 yrs
Age 31
Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious
Weapon Explosives; Improvised device

Military Service

Louis Michael Bonacasa served in the U.S. Air Force (2011–2011) before joining law enforcement.

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The Sacrifice · Felonious

Louis is one of 15,743 officers killed feloniously in the United States, 57.1% of the 27,552 remembered there.

34,103 officers are remembered on this memorial. Each number below is one of them.

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Time

In 2015, 60 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 126th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States
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Who

Louis was 31. Of the 14,219 killed feloniously in the United States whose age is recorded, half were between 31 and 47; the middle age was 38. Louis had served 7 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

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When

December holds 9.4% of these deaths in the United States, more than any other month. Mondays: 13.8%.

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How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was explosives; improvised device, in 0.1% of these deaths.

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His people

United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations has 18 officers remembered here, Louis among them.

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Where

Special Agent Louis Michael Bonacasa

United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations · End of Watch December 21, 2015

Military Service

Louis Michael Bonacasa served in the U.S. Air Force (2011–2011) before joining law enforcement.

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Where the Name Is Cut

Global War on Terrorism Memorial · Panel 12

National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial · Panel 52-E

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