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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Fallon Tribal Police Officer Killed in Early Morning Auto Accident

STILLWATER RESERVATION

By: Greg Knight

Tragedy has befallen the members of a Northern Nevada Indian Tribe this Fourth of July.

Tribal officer Adam Menuez with the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribal Police died in a car accident near the Stillwater Reservation. The accident happened around 5 a.m. Wednesday morning near Rio Vista and Cemetery Road.

Menuez was killed when his police vehicle rolled over enroute to a medical emergency on the reservation.

Menuez was a veteran of U.S. Army and had served tours in Afghanistan during the war on terror.

The cause of the accident is unknown and is under investigation by the Nevada Highway Patrol.

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