Thomas Truesdale served in the U.S. Navy.
Detective Lieutenant Thomas Truesdale and Patrolman Emil Newberg were both shot and killed as they tried to disarm a suicidal man who had barricaded himself in a bathroom with a pistol. The suspect, 35, had walked away from a V A veterans mental institution in Brockton, Mass. on October 21, 1957. He was committed in Providence mental hospital where he died in 1983. Detective Lieutenant Truesdale had served with the Pawtuckett Police Department for 37 years and was killed on his 58th birthday.
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37 years. You could have gone home.
Detective Lieutenant Truesdale gave the Pawtucket Police Department 37 years. Still answering calls at the end.
Thank you for your service to the Pawtucket community. Gone but never to be forgotten.
Rest easy, Detective Lieutenant Truesdale.
— S. Vincent Anthony, U.S. Army 1985-1993
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