Officer Ralph W. Miller, Manchester Police Department, New Hampshire

Officer Ralph W. Miller

Manchester Police Department, New Hampshire

End of Watch Saturday, October 2, 1976

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Ralph W. Miller

Officer Ralph Miller was shot and killed after he and his partner responded to a noise complaint involving a drunk teenager at a home on Hall Street.

As the officers approached the house the teenager fired a rifle through the screen door, striking Officer Miller in the chest.

The suspect, 15, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. He was paroled on October 4, 2016.

Officer Miller had served with the Manchester Police Department for just over one year. He is survived by his expectant wife and child. He was a U.S. Navy veteran.

Bio

Age 25
Tour 1 year
Badge 119
Military Veteran

Incident Details

Cause Gunfire
Weapon Rifle
Offender Paroled in 2016

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Dear Ralph, I think of you often. You were with Officer Alex Dougherty, A very best friend of Mine, the night you lost your life to 15 year-old Cliff Roy, who just wanted to kill a police officer that night, when you were ambushed Through a screen door, while answering a Loud music call. Alex struggled for a very long time, not understanding why you were killed instead of himself. He was not married, he had no children, and that night he did not have a bulletproof vest on. You With a beautiful wife and children, and a wee one on the way, Lost your life. . You were a great man, a great dad, and amazing kind and caring police officer. Today, a friend that lives in Georgia told me a 24 year-old police officer was shoot down and killed, checking out a vehicle that was stopped. You came full blast into my thoughts and heart. You must’ve been needed somewhere else more than here, in which I could not imagine That to be.

Teresa Champney Paradis
Caring friend forever

February 8, 2025