Adam Joseph Menuez
Incident
Officer Adam Menuez was killed in an automobile crash on Rio Vista Street, on the Stillwater Indian Reservation, while responding to a call at approximately 4:30 am.
He lost control of his 2006 Dodge Charger patrol car and struck a guardrail on a bridge as he rounded a bend in the roadway. The vehicle overturned and became submerged in an irrigation canal. He was extricated from the vehicle and transported to Fallon Churchill Banner Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Officer Menuez was a U.S. Army veteran of the War on Terrorism. He had served with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribal Police Department for only 5 months.
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- September 9, 2026
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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.
Police Officer Menuez served with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribal Police Department.
Thank you for your service to the Fallon community, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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Military Service
Adam Joseph Menuez served in the U.S. Army (1999â2006) before joining law enforcement.
Police Officer Adam Joseph Menuez is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,787 officers honored here.
In NV, 40 of 146 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 27.4% of this state's fallen. That is 27.4 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.
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Adam Joseph Menuez served in the U.S. Army (1999–2006) before joining law enforcement.
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