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Officer

Dana Everett Paladini

California Highway Patrol — Sacramento, CA

Veteran → Accident

End of Watch July 4, 1972

Age 25

Tour of Duty 9 mo

Badge 7839

The Vigil Panel 110 ›

Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Military Department 232

Incident

Officer Dana Paladini was killed when he was accidentally struck by a bullet that ricocheted off of a trailer. He and a local sheriff's deputy stopped to assist at an accident involving a horse trailer. One of the horses was badly injured, and the owner asked the officers to shoot it. The deputy fired three rounds, one of which ricocheted off of the trailer and struck Officer Paladini. He was transported to the St. Francis hospital, where he succumbed to his wounds. Officer Paladini was a United States Navy veteran and had served with the California Highway Patrol for nine months.

Survivors

He was survived by his mother.

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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.
Officer Paladini served with the California Highway Patrol.
Thank you for your service to the people of California, and for your service before it. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, brother.

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

Agency

Department California Highway Patrol

Type Highway Patrol

Location Sacramento, CA

Platform Identity chp.ca.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch July 4, 1972

Tour of Duty 9 mo

Age 25

Badge Number 7839

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Military Service

Dana Everett Paladini served in the U.S. Navy (1966â1970) before joining law enforcement.

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Officer Dana Everett Paladini is one of 1 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 0% of all 97,759 officers honored here.

In CA, 719 of 1,837 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 39.1% of this state's fallen. That is 39.1 percentage points above the national rate of 0%.

At California Highway Patrol, 151 of 233 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 64.8% of this agency's fallen.

California Highway Patrol

151

of 233 officers

64.8% Accident

CA — Statewide

719

of 1,837 officers

39.1% Accident

Nationwide

of 97,759 officers

0% Accident