Photos: Deputy US marshal killed in the line of duty in Tucson
Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White, 41, was shot and killed on Thursday, Nov. 29.
White was serving a felony arrest warrant for 26-year-old Ryan Schlesinger.
According to court documents, authorities approached the home and attempted to force entry when Schlesinger fired through a window, striking White. He died on the way to the hospital.
White had worked for the agency since 2015. He leaves behind a wife and four children.
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Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White was shot and killed serving a search warrant in Tucson on Nov. 29, 2018.
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David Gonzales, U.S. marshal for the District of Arizona, and Elizabeth Strange, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Arizona, embrace at Friday’s news conference about the shooting death of Deputy Marshal Chase White.
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David Gonzales, US Marshal, District of Arizona speaks during the U.S. Marshals Service press conference about the shooting death of Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse on November 30, 2018. Behind him is Timothy Hughes, Chief Deputy US Marshal, District of Arizona.
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Deputy Chief Chad Kasmar, Tucson Police Department, discusses the shooting death of Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White at the Evo A. DeConcini U.S. Courthouse in in Tucson, AZ on November 30, 2018.
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Tucson police served an order to Ryan Schlesinger to get him to take a mental-health evaluation in August 2017 at the same home where Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White was killed Thursday.
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In addition to sending emails to officers, Ryan Schlesinger sent threatening emails to a Pima Community College administrator who had placed him on probation in March 2017.
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A Tucson Police Department investigator, right, talks to another law enforcement officer at the scene where Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White was shot and killed while serving a felony arrest warrant Thursday evening outside a Tucson house on the north side.
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A Tucson Police Department officer sits in his patrol car at the scene where a deputy U.S. marshal serving a felony arrest warrant was shot and killed Thursday evening outside a Tucson house on the north side.
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Tucson Police Officers stand by a police car with Ryan Schlesinger detained in the back seat on November 29, 2018 in Tucson, AZ.
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Tucson police officers stand by a police car with Ryan Schlesinger detained in the back seat after a shooting that killed Deputy U.S. Marshal Chase White. It had been 66 years since a deputy U.S. marshal was killed in the line of duty in Tucson.
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A Tucson Police Department Officer stands by his police car outside the house where Ryan Schlesinger is holed up following a shooting on November 29, 2018 in Tucson, AZ.
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Nonprofit Tunnels to Towers Foundation donated the money to help the family of marshal Chase White pay off their home mortgage.
