Darrell S. Solida

Pennsylvania Game Commission — Harrisburg, PA

Felonious

End of Watch December 6, 1931

Age 21

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Gender Male

Incident Service The Sacrifice Department 11

Incident

Deputy Game Protector Darrell Solida was shot and killed while investigating an illegal deer kill near Troutville, Pennsylvania, at about 10:00 am.

He had received reports that a buck and fawn had been killed. He was examining the carcasses when he was shot by a nearby hunter. Another uninvolved hunter drove Deputy Game Protector Solida to the hospital where he died shortly after midnight.

The hunter who shot him was arrested the following day. He plead guilty to manslaughter in April 1932. He was fined $100, had his hunting privileges revoked for 10 years, and received three years of probation.

Deputy Game Protector Solida was survived by his parents.

Survivors

Deputy Game Protector Solida was survived by his parents.

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I never knew you. I am standing here anyway.
Deputy Game Protector Solida served with the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
Thank you for your service to the Harrisburg community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Deputy Game Protector Solida.

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

Agency

Department Pennsylvania Game Commission

Location Harrisburg, PA

Platform Identity pgc.dauphin.pa.us.gov.nw

Service Record

End of Watch December 6, 1931

Age 21

Gender Male

Incident Details

Cause Felonious

Cause Detail Gunfire

Weapon Rifle

Offender Convicted of manslaughter

Deputy Game Protector Darrell S. Solida 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 PA, 597 of 1,261 officers were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 47.3% of this state's fallen. That is 6.9 percentage points below the national rate of 54.2%.

At Pennsylvania Game Commission, 5 of 12 officers on record were killed feloniously — deliberately targeted and murdered in the line of duty — 41.7% of this agency's fallen.

Pennsylvania Game Commission

of 12 officers

41.7% Felonious

PA — Statewide

597

of 1,261 officers

47.3% Felonious

Nationwide

17,623

of 32,508 officers

54.2% Felonious