Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Tony Snyder, whose investigation of a car wreck led to a murder conviction against a Princeton man, earned the State Patrol’s 2003 Trooper of the Year Award.
Cpl. Snyder investigated the death of Deborah Hollermann, 41, of Princeton, on March 22, 2001. Her husband, Steven Hollermann, had said she was killed when their car ran off a highway in Isanti County and hit a parked car. He was driving, and she was the only passenger.
Snyder, a 13-year veteran who works out of the State Patrol’s Cambridge station, found an unusually large amount of blood in the Hollermanns’ car and said he’d “never seen anyone die from that minor an accident.”
Steven Hollermann, 41, was convicted in April of unintentional second-degree murder.
Snyder has earned the agency’s Meritorious Service Award and was the 2003 Isanti County Officer of the Year. He is a member of the State Patrol’s special response team recently assigned to help Minneapolis police with patrols fighting gangs and drugs.