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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Ladies and Gentlemen,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Recently a Marine Lance Corporal lost his life in action in
Afghanistan. His name was Lance Corporal Jonathan Stroud. His
father, Billy Stroud had an address in Bedford and his mom and his wife lived
in his home town of Cashion, OK. When we got word of his death we began
preliminary preparations, just in case Lance Corporal Stroud would be coming to
our area and the family requested PGR support…like we always do.
Lance Corporal Stroud ended up going to Oklahoma and the PGR was present for
him there and did a wonderful job.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Today I received a telephone call from Scott Gordon of Channel 5
news wanting to know if I had heard of the horrible tragedy. I confessed
to him I didn’t know what he was talking about and he mentioned Lance
Corporal Stroud. I told him that I was aware of his situation and then he
asked me if I had heard about his father. As it turns out, Mr. Stroud,
while attending the services for his son and seeing the PGR and the motorcycles
became inspired to purchase a motorcycle for himself when he returned to
Bedford. Mr. Stroud was familiar with motorcycles but he decided to go
and purchase one and start riding again. Mr. Stroud bought a new 2009
motorcycle just this past Monday. Mr. Stroud was run over and killed by a
drunk driver the following day, yesterday. Mr. Stroud will be buried in
his home town of Hobbs, New Mexico. The driver is being charged with murder.
It is her 3<sup>rd</sup> DWI. Both were travelling the same direction
when she apparently came up behind him and simply ran over him…allegedly…at
10:40 in the morning.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>What a terrible tragedy for this family. First, Lance
Corporal Stroud is killed in action while defending our freedom and now his
father is killed by a drunk driver while enjoying that freedom that his son
died to protect. The pain that this family must be feeling cannot be
anything less than immense. Channel 5 wanted an on camera interview right
away and Mr. Gordon was on the road in north Fort Worth so Ride Captain Mike
Lambert provided the interview for him. I told Mr. Gordon on the phone
that the entire North Texas PGR family mourned the death of Lance Corporal
Stroud and now the senseless death of Mr. Stroud. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Here is a family that has been given something of a double dose of
grief. We in the PGR happen to be exposed to their story and their pain
through involvement with the services of Lance Corporal Stroud and the close
proximity of where Mr. Stroud lived. I have taken the liberty of posting
below the news article I found about the “accident” that took Mr.
Stroud’s life for your information.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>I am aware that this information is not exactly the type of mission
related message you might regularly expect, but I thought it was something you
might want to be aware of.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>If you are a person who prays, this might be something you could
consider including.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Thank you all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:blue'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Steve Lucas<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>Deputy State Captain<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";
color:blue'>North Texas PGR<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:1.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:21.0pt;background:white'><b><span
style='font-size:19.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Woman faces murder
charge in Haltom City wreck<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:14.4pt;background:white'><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-transform:
uppercase'>By DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a
href="mailto:ramirez@star-telegram.com"><span style='font-size:8.5pt;
color:black;text-decoration:none'>ramirez@star-telegram.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:7.5pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
5.25pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:12.0pt;background:#F4F4F4'><b><span
style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Related Content</span></b><b><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-line-height-alt:10.5pt;background:#F4F4F4'><a
href="http://media.star-telegram.com/smedia/2009/08/12/09/918-stegallmug.standalone.prod_affiliate.58.jpg"
title=""Tammy Sue Stegall " "><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none'><img
border=0 width=131 height=164 id="Picture_x0020_1"
src="cid:image001.jpg@01CA1B82.F2791380" alt="Tammy Sue Stegall "></span></a><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;line-height:10.5pt;
background:#F4F4F4'><span style='font-size:6.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:#8E8E7E'>Courtesy Haltom City Police Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.5pt;background:#F4F4F4'><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Tammy Sue Stegall <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>HALTOM CITY -- Billy Stroud drove his new 2009 Yamaha
motorcycle on Belknap Street Tuesday morning on his way to a visit a friend in
Fort Worth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 56-year-old architectural engineer never made it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stroud, of Bedford, died from injuries he received when
his motorcycle was hit from behind by a car driven by a woman suspected of
driving drunk, police said Wednesday. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>“He had just bought the motorcycle on
Monday,” said his friend Dorothy Kuhlman of North Richland Hills as she
fought back tears during a telephone interview on Wednesday. “He had had
motorcycles before, so he was experienced with them. He said he was going out
for a ride.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Within a day of her arrest, 50-year-old Tammy Sue Stegall
of Haltom City was arraigned Wednesday on a charge of murder because she has
two previous driving-while-intoxicated convictions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Stegall was in the Haltom City Jail with bail set at
$500,000.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Initially, Stegall was in jail on suspicion of
intoxication manslaughter, but the charge was changed to murder because of her
two DWI convictions in Tarrant County, police said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>One of those convictions was in Haltom City following
another accident in August 2008, according to Tarrant County criminal court
records. The other happened in Fort Worth in September 1994, records show. She
was sentenced to 45 days in jail and fined $896 on the Fort Worth case and she
was sentenced to 30 days in jail, seven years probation and fined $1,123 last
year on the Haltom City case, according to court records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Since 1982, Stegall had convictions for theft, credit
card abuse, two cases of passing a forged check and two cases of possession of
a controlled substance, records show. Her longest stay in jail was in 1986 when
she was sentenced to five years in prison for the forged check convictions,
according to court records.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>The accident was reported about 10:40 a.m. Tuesday in the
5800 block of Belknap Street near Denton Highway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>The woman was driving a Nissan Maxima that rear-ended the
motorcycle on Belknap Street, police said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>“They were both traveling westbound when she came
up behind him and hit the motorcycle,” Haltom City police Sgt. Eric Peters
said today. “She pushed the motorcycle for some distance.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>When officers arrived, Stroud was found lying in the
roadway, police said. Stegall was in her car on the side of the street when
officers arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>According to the Tarrant County medical examiner’s
Web site, Stroud died about 2 p.m. Tuesday at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort
Worth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>He died from multiple trauma and being run over by the
car, the Web site states.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>A native of Hobbs, N.M., Stroud had lived in Bedford for
20 years and he had worked in Southlake, Kuhlman said Wednesday.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>His funeral is Monday in Hobbs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:7.5pt;
line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif"'>Just two weeks ago, Stroud and his family buried
Stroud’s 20-year-old son, Lance Cpl. Johnathan Stroud, a U.S. Marine, who
was killed July 30, in Afghanistan, Kuhlman said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:10.5pt;background:white'><i><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>DOMINGO RAMIREZ JR.,
817-390-7763<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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