Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Lynn Lewis was assigned to the Lynwood Station at the time of his death. Deputy Lewis was en route home from a Chief of Police Conference in which he was a volunteer. He died in a fatal traffic collision when he lost control of his car and struck a freeway directional standard.

Officer George W. Redding responded to an accident call where a vehicle had crashed into a telephone pole. Redding had just gotten out of his patrol car when a passing vehicle struck the downed telephone support cable causing it to snap and whip across the road. The flying cable struck the patrol officer, wrapped around his ankles and hurled him into the air before throwing him to the ground. Officer Redding, 43, was killed almost instantly.

A Memorial posted on Highway 273 between mile markers 6.50 and 10.50 in Shasta County will forever honor him. His son, Mark, is now a CHP Officer in the Redding area, having joined the Highway Patrol in 1985.

Investigator Dierkes was struck and killed by a drunk driver. The drunk driver crossed the center line and struck his department vehicle head-on.
Investigator Dierkes had been with the agency for almost three years and was survived by his wife.

Officer Arthur E. Dunn had just radioed Redding Dispatch that he was bringing in a prisoner he had arrested for drunk driving. When Dunn failed to arrive an hour later or respond to radio contact, his beat partner started a search. Dunn’s patrol car was discovered over an embankment where it had plunged after the prisoner shot the officer with a small caliber handgun he had concealed. Dunn’s killer escaped by kicking out the patrol car’s rear window but was captured nearby. Officer Dunn, 43, was a 14-vear CHP veteran and had been assigned at the Burney Resident Post for 10 years.

Officer Dunn was born on February 18, 1934 and joined the patrol in March 1963 and upon graduation from the academy he was assigned to West Los Angeles Area on July 5, 1963. State Route 89 between mile markers 36 and 41 in Shasta County was dedicated in his memory on November 4, 2002.