On a cold February evening in 2006, Virginia State Trooper Kevin Carder Manion, 27, was on duty in Clarke County when he and a fellow trooper were at the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Route 649. A pickup that had gone into a ditch and overturned was being moved when a rifle inside the cab discharged. The single round struck Trooper Manion in the chest in an area not covered by his ballistic vest. He was flown to Inova Fairfax Hospital and succumbed to the wound on February 18, 2006.

Manion had served with the Virginia State Police for just under three years. The two occupants of the pickup were arrested at the scene on alcohol-related charges; investigators determined the rifle had been stolen earlier that day during a residential burglary. The driver of the pickup was later charged with second-degree murder, possession of a firearm by a felon, larceny of a firearm, and daytime breaking and entering, and in December 2006 pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter, receiving a 10-year sentence.

Does anyone have information about the burglary or where the stolen rifle came from?