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 the man was able to gain possession of the officer’s 9 mm semiautomatic service weapon. He shot the officer twice, once in the front of the head and once below the waist, mortally wounding him. Police units responding to the scene placed a 27-year-old suspect under arrest. He was subsequently charged with First-Degree Murder and Disarming a Police Officer. At approximately 4 p.m. on October 17, a 26-year-old patrol officer with the Kankakee Police Department was shot and killed while making a traffic stop on a busy highway. The patrol officer, with nearly 2 years of law enforcement experience, stopped a male and radioed dispatch for a license plate and driver’s license check. While standing by the driver’s door of his squad car, the patrol officer apparently did not notice the man exiting his vehicle armed with a .357-caliber revolver. The man fired at the officer, who was wearing body armor, striking him in the right arm pit and causing him to fall to the ground. He then approached the fallen patrol officer and continued to fire, striking the officer three times in the head and once in the forearm. The man then fled the scene and allegedly hijacked a vehicle at a nearby shopping area. A 22-year-old suspect was apprehended and arrested shortly thereafter. He has been charged with First-Degree Murder, Vehicular Highjacking, and Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm. KANSAS A deputy sheriff with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office was shot and killed following a traffic pursuit in Wichita on January 8. Shortly before 1 a.m., the deputy, with more than 2 years’ law enforcement experience, attempted to stop a suspicious vehicle which had five occupants. The driver allegedly tried to elude the officer by speeding through a residential area. After contacting his radio dispatcher for backup, the deputy pursued the vehicle through winding streets until the driver lost control and crashed into a chain link fence in a residential

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yard. Allegedly leaving the passengers behind, the driver exited the vehicle and ran to the rear of a residence with the victim officer in pursuit. Shots were heard by local residents and backup deputies arriving on the scene. When the driver came walking from behind the residence carrying two weapons, he was immediately apprehended. The body of the 24-year-old victim deputy was found behind the home with multiple wounds from a .25-caliber semiautomatic handgun, including a fatal wound to the neck, which had entered above his protective vest. The suspect was found to be carrying both the alleged murder weapon and the victim officer’s service revolver. All four of the other occupants of the vehicle, which was later found to have been stolen, were also taken into custody. The 14-year-old alleged assailant was charged with First-Degree Capital Murder, two counts of Theft, Criminal Damage to Property, Aggravated Robbery, and Criminal Possession of a Firearm. He was sentenced to 40 years without the possibility of probation or parole plus 9 years. LOUISIANA On January 27 at approximately 1:10 a.m., a deputy sheriff with the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Department was fatally wounded as he and other deputies attempted to subdue a man allegedly wanted in connection with an armed robbery. Prior to the confrontation, the 37-year-old victim deputy, with more than 4 years’ law enforcement experience, attempted to initiate a traffic stop on a male, who was riding a motorcycle. He refused to pull over and a pursuit ensued, during which the male drove through several police roadblocks. Eventually, he was tackled off his motorcycle. As the victim deputy and other deputies struggled to subdue him, he managed to acquire the .357-caliber magnum service revolver of one of the responding deputies. He fired three rounds, one of which fatally struck the victim deputy in the front lower torso/stomach, and the other two struck another deputy in his legs. The 25-year-old