Roll of Honor
Louis Michael Bonacasa
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
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Service Record
Incident Details
Military Service
Louis Michael Bonacasa served in the Air Force (2015â2015) before joining law enforcement.
Special Agent Louis Michael Bonacasa is one of 17,623 officers killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty across the full record of this memorial — 54.2% of all 32,508 officers honored here.
In VA, 395 of 654 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 60.4% of this state's fallen. That is 6.2 percentage points above the national rate of 54.2%.
At United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations, 15 of 18 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 83.3% of this agency's fallen.
National Cause Distribution
How Felonious compares to all causes of officer death in the memorial record. Louis Michael Bonacasa's cause is highlighted.
How Louis Michael Bonacasa Compares
Offender Outcome
Suicide bomber
When Felonious Deaths Occur
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Weapons Used Against Officers
Most common weapons in felonious officer deaths. Louis Michael Bonacasa was killed by explosives; improvised device.
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