Added Monday March6, 2006... Anibal Rousseau died Sunday Monrning, March 5, 2006 from complications of Hepatitis C. Ironic.... He died from his own lethal injection!
Justice is now in the Hands of GOD.
It no longer matters what we believe.
Peace,
Tracey DeLitta Tousley
469-279-5850
" I have been where you fear to go... I have seen what you fear to see...I have done what you fear to do...All these things I've done for you. I am the one you lean upon...The one you cast your scorn upon...The one you bring your troubles to...All these people I've been for you. The one you ask to stand apart...The one you feel should have no heart...The one you call the man in blue... But I am human just like you."
Author Unknown
"No greater love hath man than this... that he lay down his life for a friend." John 15:13
Rev 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
IT IS NOT HOW DAVID DIED THAT MADE HIM A HERO BUT HOW HE LIVED
It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
~ Oscar Aria ~
Trust, but verify.
~ Damon Runyan ~
Few have luck, all have death.
~Proverb, (Danish)~
Welcome to Dynomite Dave's Web site. This site is dedicated to the memory of my father, DAVID ROBERT DELITTA, 1949-1988.
Please visit often as I will be making updates weekly. If you would like to add something to this web site, pictures, stories, memories of David, please contact me at scoutingmrst@yahoo.com or by cell 469-583-5543. I love to hear from his friends. Thanks for visiting, please sign the guest book before you leave. Thanks and happy surfing.
DAVID ROBERT DELITTA was born in Harrison, New York in 1949. He has an older brother named Tommy, and a sister named Carol. His father worked at the Harrison Recreation Center. His mother was a homemaker.
When David was 17, he worked for the FBI in Washington DC as a clerk. He then was drafted into the Vietnam war. He served in the U S Marine Corps. Because of the GI bill, David was able to finish school and received his Masters Degree in Education from the university of Tampa in Florida. It was there that he met my mother Rita Ann Burkhart Cockerham. Rita had been previously married to my birth father, Jerry Cockerham. Rita and David married and David adopted my brother and me. I was 6 a the time of my adoption.
For a while, we lived with my grandparents in Brooksville, Florida. Then we moved to Carlton Arms Apartments. I remember my father as being very athletic and physically fit. He played softball with other Tampa Police officers.
David was hired by the City of Tampa as a Police Officer and we soon moved to Town and Country, Florida and then to Brandon, Florida. I was in the 4th grade when we moved there. This was our first home. We lived there for a few years. When I was in the 7th grade, David was hired by the Greeley Police Department as an officer. We moved there to start a new life in our favorite state, COLORADO.
We were in Colorado for three and a half years before he was hired by the Drug Enforcement Administration, which he had been applying to for years. We moved to Lewisville, Texas. Our home had not been built when we arrived so we stayed at the Ramada Inn ( 35 and 121 ) for about a month. My dad was then sent to Glynco, Georgia for training in the fall of 1983.
David was with the DEA for 5 years when he decided to take a job with the EPA as an investigator. He and my mother thought it would be a safer job for him. Two months after he was with the EPA, he was murdered in Houston, Texas in the parking lot of a restaurant on interstate 45. The date of the robbery / murder was October 27, 1988.
The murder suspect was at large for nearly a month. Police and federal agents volunteered to search for the killer. The suspect gave himself up by calling a television station and surrendered on camera. His case was tried within 6 months and he was sent to death row.
In 1996 David was remembered and honored with a cermony at Glynco, Georgia. Even though David had been deceased for nearly 8 years, his family came from many states and filled several rows. The key note speaker was governor Keating from Oklahoma. The memorial ceremony included all federal agents that had died in the line of duty within the last 8 years. Included were the federal agents that died in the Oklahoma City bombing. The ceremony was beautiful and it was nice to see family again.
In early 2002, I began reseaching my father's death and the circumstances surrounding it. I never knew what really happened or why. In April, I contacted the EPA and they said they had just received an article concerning my fathers case. Since then I have been studying the court documents, affadavits, application for writ of habeas corpus, constitutional law, the death penalty and our penal system.
In early 2005, I put together a web site so that family and friends are able to keep up with the case, send stories and photos or contact the family.
At the beginning of this summer~2005, David was added to the fallen officers memorial web site. The link is in the links ection of this web site.
David's friends at the DEA remember him as having a great sense of humor. He had a hysterical laugh and loved to play practical jokes. I remember him as a perfectionist that was particularly detailed about everything. He hated injustice and "bad guys" and always DID HIS BEST at everything he did.
The newspaper articles surrounding his death are on the links, photos and articles section of this web site. I am in the process of logging more articles, letters, photos and war information... please be patient as it takes a lot of time to do this. Also please submit your thoughts concerning David or if you have anything to add, pictures, funny stories, etc. Our family would appreciate it so much.
Thank You For Visiting and Keeping His Memory Alive,
Tracey Devonne DeLitta ~ Tousley
David's Daughter |
