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Supervisory Special Agent Gregory J. Rahoi was a former Madison Police Officer as well - his family still resides in Wisconsin. Though he is no longer directly one of ours, he is one of us.
Ex-Madison officer killed in FBI training
KAREN RIVEDAL
A former Madison police officer who left the department to join the FBI in 1997 was killed Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise on an Army base in Virginia.
Gregory J. Rahoi, 38, was a supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team at the time of his death.
He was accidentally shot Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement by Ken Perrotte, a spokesman for the Army base, Fort A.P. Hill, about an hour south of Washington, D.C.
Madison Police Lt. David Jugovich was in the same recruiting class as Rahoi in 1994, when Jugovich was 32 and Rahoi was 25. Jugovich on Thursday recalled Rahoi, who worked in patrol, as uncommonly focused on the job.
"Greg was a very dedicated, committed police officer," Jugovich said. "He really took his work very, very seriously. He was very committed to a career in law enforcement."
Jugovich said Rahoi, of Brookfield, was a lawyer when he came to the Madison Police Department and had been a probationary officer with the Brookfield Police Department.
He had been serving with the FBI's hostage rescue team for six years, Perrotte said.
After the training accident Wednesday, Rahoi was flown by helicopter to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va., where he was pronounced dead, Perrotte said.
"It was with heavy sadness that we learned of Greg's passing," Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said in a prepared statement Thursday.
"Greg was an excellent officer with the Madison Police Department and had a promising career in law enforcement," Wray said. "He was well-liked in our department and his personnel file is full of commendations for the work he performed and the good deeds he did for citizens."
Federal officials promised a "thorough investigation" of Rahoi's death by officials with the FBI and Army. According to The Associated Press, the last time anyone died during live- fire training at Fort A.P. Hill was in December 2000.
The base is a 76,000-acre, regional training center where 60,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines annually use its live-fire ranges and land to practice maneuvers, Perrotte said.
Federal law enforcement and homeland security agencies also regularly train on the firing ranges, Perrotte said.
Ex-Madison officer killed in FBI training
KAREN RIVEDAL
A former Madison police officer who left the department to join the FBI in 1997 was killed Wednesday during a live-fire training exercise on an Army base in Virginia.
Gregory J. Rahoi, 38, was a supervisory special agent assigned to the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team at the time of his death.
He was accidentally shot Wednesday afternoon, according to a statement by Ken Perrotte, a spokesman for the Army base, Fort A.P. Hill, about an hour south of Washington, D.C.
Madison Police Lt. David Jugovich was in the same recruiting class as Rahoi in 1994, when Jugovich was 32 and Rahoi was 25. Jugovich on Thursday recalled Rahoi, who worked in patrol, as uncommonly focused on the job.
"Greg was a very dedicated, committed police officer," Jugovich said. "He really took his work very, very seriously. He was very committed to a career in law enforcement."
Jugovich said Rahoi, of Brookfield, was a lawyer when he came to the Madison Police Department and had been a probationary officer with the Brookfield Police Department.
He had been serving with the FBI's hostage rescue team for six years, Perrotte said.
After the training accident Wednesday, Rahoi was flown by helicopter to Mary Washington Hospital in Fredericksburg, Va., where he was pronounced dead, Perrotte said.
"It was with heavy sadness that we learned of Greg's passing," Madison Police Chief Noble Wray said in a prepared statement Thursday.
"Greg was an excellent officer with the Madison Police Department and had a promising career in law enforcement," Wray said. "He was well-liked in our department and his personnel file is full of commendations for the work he performed and the good deeds he did for citizens."
Federal officials promised a "thorough investigation" of Rahoi's death by officials with the FBI and Army. According to The Associated Press, the last time anyone died during live- fire training at Fort A.P. Hill was in December 2000.
The base is a 76,000-acre, regional training center where 60,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines annually use its live-fire ranges and land to practice maneuvers, Perrotte said.
Federal law enforcement and homeland security agencies also regularly train on the firing ranges, Perrotte said.