Valence LeeWayne Pascal was 26 and a U.S. Army veteran serving as a Benson County deputy when he was killed in the line of duty in late August 1993. He had worked with the Sheriff’s Office for two years and was described as dedicated to his community’s safety.

On the afternoon of August 26, 1993, in Leeds Deputy Pascal arrested a man on a warrant for failing to appear on a DUI charge and placed him in the back of a patrol car. After returning to the driver’s seat, Pascal was shot in the back of the head with a homemade .22 caliber pistol that the arrestee produced. The suspect then took his own life with the same weapon. Deputy Pascal was taken to a Fargo hospital and died the next morning, August 27, 1993. The motive for the attack remains unclear. A scholarship was later established in Pascal’s name.

Did anyone in the community have contact with Deputy Pascal or the arrestee around that date who can add detail about what happened?