[TheeBadOne]

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Police Officer Douglas E. Wendel
Richmond Police Department, VA

End of Watch: Wednesday, July 30, 2003

Age: 41

Tour of Duty: 5 yr

Officer Wendel was shot and killed after responding to a call involving a suspected drug dealer near East 33rd Street and Midlothian Turnpike, in the city's Southside, at 1727 hours. As he talked with the suspect a second man approached him from behind and shot him in the back of the neck and head. Although mortally wounded, Officer Wendel was able to call for assistance. He was transported to MCV Hospital where he succumbed to his wounds one hour later. Both suspects fled the scene and remain at large.

Officer Wendel had been with the Richmond Police Department for five years. He is survived by his two young sons, young daughter, fiancée, brother, and parents.

[Carlos Cabeza]

:fire: Cop killers need to get what they got comin', a free ride to meet :evil:

God rest your soul Officer D. E. Wendel.

[cookhj]

i heard about this yesterday while on duty. our dept was given the info on the suspect because he is known to frequent our area. i hope this guy gets picked up soon. everyone say a prayer for Ofc. Wendel and his family.

[DadOfThree]

My thoughts and prayers to the officer's family and friends. Hope they catch the POS that did it!

[El Tejon]

RIP.

Everyone watch 6. As the mantis prepares to attack the cicada to its front, a sparrow plans to attack the mantis from behind.:(

[rock jock]

i hope this guy gets picked up soon
Yeah, so do I........with a meat hook.

[P95Carry]

Condolences to the family ..... he never deserved that sorta cowardly execution .... that's all it was.

I too hope the perps are caught and ...... ''adjusted''.:evil:

[12-34hom]

We are diminished.

RIP.

12-34hom.

[Duncan Idaho]

Go with God officer WendellYeah, so do I........with a meat hook.And I know what I would like to see in terms of meat hook placement. :fire: :fire: :fire:

[gunsmith]

And his Family

[Gewehr98]

Another installment of "Dead Cop Review".

There never was an out-front explanation of why THR is considered a good place for this. Or the motivations of the poster.

Perhaps we can cut and paste the daily obituaries of whomever we feel? :scrutiny:

[Leatherneck]

Ugly, gewehr. Just mean and ugly. :barf:

TC
TFL Survivor

[brownie0486]

Gewehr98 :

Perhaps we should have a section on the forum for LE's then. Your lack of compassion at an officers demise/murder anywhere in the world speaks volumes about your attitude toward LE's in general.:barf:

As there is no place for LE's on the forum to post about these types of things, where would you suggest we stick them? Or do you suggest the LE's here should not post something of interest to them at all?

Moderators, what do you think?

Brownie

[owen]

I agree with Gewehr. I don't think THR is the place for this. This is not a law enforcement forum. This is not an obituary forum. The officer was not a member of THR.

Articles about police killed in action should be limited to lessons learned, strategy and tactics type topics. Obits on THR should be limited to THR members, or people of note in the firearms community (successful target shooters, activists, gunsmiths, etc) .

One of the high points of THR is the high info to noise ratio. I see these obits as noise.

owen

[Preacherman]

Folks, let's not go overboard about this. I agree with those posters who say that they don't like to see L&P turned into an obituary board - they're right, that's not the purpose of this forum. We're not heartless, and all of us, I'm sure, hate to see a good cop brought down in the line of duty. All of us, I'm sure, would like to see those who do such things brought to justice. However, the topic is neither legal nor political, and as such doesn't really belong here.