David Bruce Pulling

Delaware State Police — Dover, DE

Accident

End of Watch November 18, 1987

Age 31

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 20

Incident

Corporal Pulling was killed during an explosives training exercise in Huntsville, Alabama. Corporal Pulling was attending the course, instructed by the FBI, in order to become a bomb technician for the Delaware State Police. During the training an explosive device he was handling detonated, causing fatal injuries.

Survivors

Corporal Pulling was survived by his wife, two sons and parents.

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Tributes

I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Corporal Pulling served with the Delaware State Police.
Thank you for your service to the people of Delaware. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Corporal Pulling.

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

Agency

Department Delaware State Police

Type State Police

Location Dover, DE

Platform Identity dsp.de.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch November 18, 1987

Age 31

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Accident

Corporal David Bruce Pulling is one of 10,094 officers lost to accidents in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 31% of all 32,585 officers honored here.

In DE, 19 of 51 officers were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 37.3% of this state's fallen. That is 6.3 percentage points above the national rate of 31%.

At Delaware State Police, 11 of 21 officers on record were lost to accidents in the line of duty — 52.4% of this agency's fallen.

Delaware State Police

of 21 officers

52.4% Accident

DE — Statewide

of 51 officers

37.3% Accident

Nationwide

10,094

of 32,585 officers

31% Accident