I don’t have live access to up-to-the-minute news in this moment, but here’s what I could verify about notable individuals named Robert E. Walls from reliable sources up to recently:
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Detective Robert E. Walls (Essex County, New Jersey) is listed in memorial records as a law enforcement officer who died from gunfire sustained during a 1985 incident in Newark. He served 27 years with the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. This entry is documented by ODMP (Officer Down Memorial Page) and provides the incident date and context for his death.[1]
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There is a separate academic profile for a Robert Walls (without the same middle initial) who is an assistant teaching professor in American Studies and Native American Studies, focusing on Coast Salish and Indigenous writing in the Pacific Northwest. This appears to be a different person and spans scholarly work rather than law enforcement.[2]
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Several obituary listings under the name Robert E. Walls or Robert Walls exist, including entries from funeral homes and legacy sites. These are individual obituaries and may refer to different people with similar names; ensure you’re matching the right middle initial and location/date when identifying someone.[3][4][8]
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Robert Walls is an Assistant Teaching Professor of American Studies and Teaching Professor of Native American Studies. After earning his Ph.D. from Indiana University, Walls taught at Lafayette College and the University of South Carolina, Columbia. His current teaching, research, and consulting focus on ethnographic and ethnohistorical studies of the Indigenous peoples of North America; specifically, his concentration is on Coast Salish and settler-colonial relationships in the Pacific...
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www.legacy.comDetective Robert Walls died of wounds he received the previous month when he was shot while attempting to arrest three suspects committing a robbery. Sergeant Nathaniel Taylor was shot and killed in the same incident.
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