Corporal Dewey Colen Shrewsbury served with the West Virginia State Police for 16 years and is listed on the agency’s Hall of Honor. On Wednesday, October 25, 1978, his service ended when he was fatally wounded by a discharge from his service weapon while cleaning it. Multiple memorial records describe the cause of death as inadvertent gunfire or an accidental discharge and do not identify any other person as having fired the fatal shot.

Shrewsbury left a wife and two children. The incident is recorded by the agency and law-enforcement memorials as an accidental firearm death rather than an assault or homicide. Does anyone have memories of Shrewsbury or information about his service that could add to the record?