David Kedra was 26 and a Pennsylvania State Trooper when he was killed on September 30, 2014, during a firearms training session at the Montgomery County Public Safety Training Complex in Plymouth Township, Pennsylvania. A live round discharged from a fellow officer’s weapon struck Kedra in the chest; he was airlifted to Temple University Hospital and died of his injuries.

The shooter was identified as Corporal Richard Schroeter, a 42-year-old firearms instructor with the Pennsylvania State Police. Investigators concluded Schroeter was demonstrating a new firearm and, while explaining the trigger mechanics, pulled the trigger without confirming the weapon was unloaded. His actions were found to breach standard safety protocols.

A grand jury declined involuntary manslaughter charges; Schroeter was arrested in February 2015 on five counts of reckless endangerment and later pleaded guilty. In August 2015 he was sentenced to two weeks in jail, three to eighteen months of house arrest, and four years of probation. Kedra’s family later filed a civil lawsuit alleging Schroeter violated Kedra’s constitutional rights and expressed that the criminal sentence was too lenient.

If anyone has information about the training session or safety practices at the facility that day, please share what is known.