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Trooper II

Chad Phillip Dermyer

Virginia State Police — North Chesterfield, VA

Veteran → Felonious

End of Watch March 31, 2016

Age 37

Tour of Duty 1 yrs 5 mo

Badge 756

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Gender Male

Incident Media Service The Sacrifice Military Memorials 1 Also Remembered Department 51

Incident

Trooper Chad Dermyer was shot and killed while speaking to a suspicious person inside the Greyhound bus terminal in Richmond, Virginia, at approximately 2:45 pm.

He and other officers were participating in an interdiction training course and were conducting stops of suspects. He spoke to the man briefly before the man suddenly produced a handgun and opened fire, hitting him. Other officers who were on scene shot and killed the subject when the man opened fire on them following a short foot pursuit inside the bus terminal.

Trooper Dermyer was transported to VCU Medical Center where he succumbed to his wounds.

Trooper Dermyer was a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. He had served with the Virginia State Police for 17 months and had previously served with the Newport News Police Department, Jackson, Michigan, Police Department, and the United States Department of Veterans Affairs Police.

Survivors

He is survived by his wife, two children, parents, brother, and sister.

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Tributes

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.
Trooper II Dermyer gave the Virginia State Police 1 year.
Thank you for your service to the people of Virginia. Thank you for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department Virginia State Police

Type State Police

Location North Chesterfield, VA

Platform Identity vsp.va.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch March 31, 2016

Tour of Duty 1 yrs 5 mo

Age 37

Badge Number 756

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Weapon Handgun

Military Service

Chad Phillip Dermyer served in the U.S. Marine Corps before joining law enforcement.

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The Sacrifice · Felonious

Chad 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.

Compare against

Time

In 2016, 82 officers in the United States were killed feloniously, the 78th heaviest of 213 years on record. The heaviest was 1921, with 248.

Every year on record · United States

Who

Chad was 37. 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. Chad had served 1.4 years; the middle length of service was 6 years.

Age at death

Where he stood among them

Age by years of service

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When

March holds 7.5% of these deaths in the United States; December holds the most, 9.4%. Thursdays: 14%.

By month

By day of the week

How

Felonious deaths account for 57.1% of all 27,552 deaths in the United States, the most common cause. The weapon recorded was handgun, in 23.4% of these deaths.

Every cause

Weapons recorded