[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2383]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         REMEMBERING PENNSYLVANIA STATE TROOPER PAUL G. RICHEY

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, it is with a heavy heart 
that I rise today and speak of the death of Pennsylvania State Trooper 
Paul G. Richey. On January 13, Richey responded to a domestic dispute 
call. He volunteered because he had taken a call at that residence 
outside Oil City, Pennsylvania, in the past. This time he was shot in 
the neck as he stepped out of his car, and never had the time to react. 
In the residence, the shooter killed his wife and then himself.
  Richey was a native of Venango County, born and reared in Sandy Creek 
Township, and a graduate of Franklin High School. He graduated from 
Edinboro University with a degree in criminology, and then from the 
Pennsylvania State Police Academy. He was married to Carrie Cornell for 
more than 15 years, and he left two children: Conner, age 9, and 
Catherine, 6. He was active in his church and Scouting with his son. He 
is also survived by his parents, Clinton and Nancy Garmong Richey.
  Richey lived up to the call of honor of the Police Academy, which 
states, ``I must serve honorably, faithfully, and if need be, lay my 
life down as others have done before me.'' My thoughts and prayers are 
with the family.

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