Leonard B Lamatrice served in the U.S. Army for 6 years and 2 months. Leonard served during the years of the Vietnam War and the Cold War.
Patrolman Leonard Lamatrice died as the result of burns sustained after he and Patrolman Thomas McGough responded to an accident on US 22. A tanker truck had overturned on the bottom of a hill at N 7th Street. As the two officers exited their patrol car the spilled gasoline caught fire and both officers were engulfed by the flames. Patrolman Lamatrice died of his injuries five weeks after the accident. Patrolman McGough suffered burns over 75 percent of his body and died six weeks later. Patrolman Lamatrice was a US Army veteran and had served with the Steubenville Police Department for 12 years.
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In tribute
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.
Patrolman Lamatrice gave the Steubenville Police Department 12 years.
Thank you for your service to the Steubenville 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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