Trooper First Class
Joseph T Lanzi Sr.

Date of Appointment:	January 1, 1991
Date of Death:	October 28, 1995
NLEOM Panel:	Panel 35
NLEOM Section:	W - 20
Details:	Lanzi, Joseph T. Sr. - Trooper First Class, 37 years old, 4 years and 10 months from January 1, 1991 to October 28, 1995. Trooper First Class Lanzi was responding to a call for help from a Cecil County sheriff's deputy. The deputy had called for back up due to a man with a gun at the scene of a DWI accident on Route 238. Trooper First Class Lanzi was killed in a single vehicle accident on Route 213 near Town Point Road about seven miles south of Elkton. His patrol vehicle veered off the roadway during a downpour and hit a tree.