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Suspect charged with murder after crash that killed Pinellas deputy
By Kellie Cowan and Jennifer Holton
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Jennifer Holton reports
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - A drunk-driving suspect has now been charged with murder after Wednesday s crash that killed a Pinellas County deputy.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Deputy Michael Magli gave his life while trying to save others from a reckless and suspected drunk driver, identified as 33-year-old Robert Allen Holzaepfel.
Magli is the first deputy at the Pinellas County Sheriff s Office to be killed in the line of duty.
Deputy Michael Magli, courtesy Pinellas County Sheriff s Office To say it’s a tragedy is an understatement, the sheriff said Wednesday. There are no words to make sense of it.
Suspect charged with murder after crash that killed Pinellas deputy
Jennifer Holton reports
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - A drunk-driving suspect has now been charged with murder after Wednesday s crash that killed a Pinellas County deputy.
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said Deputy Michael Magli gave his life while trying to save others from a reckless and suspected drunk driver, identified as 33-year-old Robert Allen Holzaepfel.
Magli is the first deputy at the Pinellas County Sheriff s Office to be killed in the line of duty.
Deputy Michael Magli, courtesy Pinellas County Sheriff s Office To say it’s a tragedy is an understatement, the sheriff said Wednesday. There are no words to make sense of it.
A 30-year-old Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy was killed while trying to help stop a drunken driver who was leading authorities on a high-speed chase. Deputy Michael Magli had stopped his patrol car in the median on Wednesday to deploy stop sticks used to puncture tires when he was struck by the truck deputies were chasing, […]
Suspect charged with felony murder in drunken crash that killed Florida deputy KATE FELDMAN
A Florida man who allegedly led police on a suspected drunken chase that left one deputy dead was charged Thursday morning with felony murder.
The Pinellas County Fire Department found Robert Allen Holzaepfel, 33, asleep behind the wheel of his truck at a red light in Tarpon Springs Wednesday evening and decided to break the window to help him, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said during a press conference.
When Holzaepfel woke up to the cracking glass, he sped off, leading deputies on a chase through the residential area.