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Deputy Dan Thomas Glaze Jr. was 33 when he was shot and killed while on duty in Rusk County, Wisconsin, on the night of October 29, 2016. Assigned to patrol near Ladysmith, he radioed in a description of a suspicious vehicle on Broken Arrow Road; when he did not respond to further radio checks, fellow officers went to his location and found him in his patrol car with a fatal gunshot wound.

The investigation quickly focused on a nearby resident named Doug Nitek. Officers located Nitek at his home the same night; a standoff followed in which Nitek fired at deputies before he was taken into custody. Dan Glaze had served with the Rusk County Sheriff’s Office for 18 months and previously worked with other local police departments. He is survived by his wife and three children.

Does anyone have information about Glaze’s last shift, the vehicle he reported, or the area around Broken Arrow Road on October 29, 2016?