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 On October 5 at approximately 2:50 a.m., a North Carolina Highway Patrol officer found the body of a 30-year-old sergeant with the Jonesville Police Department along an interstate highway. The victim officer, with 5 years’ law enforcement experience, earlier had executed a traffic stop which investigators believe involved a man driving a stolen truck. They surmised that during the traffic stop the suspect shot the victim officer, who was wearing body armor, in the back of the head with a 9 mm weapon. The suspect then fled the scene in the stolen vehicle. Police later recovered the vehicle at a location from which another vehicle had been stolen. The offender’s description and identity remain unknown. NORTH DAKOTA On March 20 at approximately 5:30 p.m., a senior patrol officer with the Watford City Police Department was fatally wounded responding to a disturbance at a local bar. After receiving a report of a shot being fired, the 39-year-old officer was dispatched to the establishment where he found approximately 18 persons, in addition to a male armed with two high-powered rifles and 100 rounds of ammunition. Backup officers arrived minutes later. The 18-year veteran officer assisted individuals in leaving the club; however, the armed male allegedly refused to allow two people to leave. A short conversation ensued during which the officer repeatedly ordered the male to lay down his weapons, but he refused. There was a brief exchange of gunfire between the two. The suspect was hit once in the leg. The officer was struck in the chest by a shot fired from a .30-30 caliber lever-action rifle which shattered his police badge. He fell to his hands and knees and took cover, but he was struck again in the coat sleeve, collapsed behind the bar, and succumbed to his initial wound. After holding two hostages for 9 hours, the 41-year-old suspect surrendered to a

negotiation team and a cousin. He was charged with Murder, Felonious Restraint, and Terrorizing. OHIO A 26-year-old trooper with the Ohio State Highway Patrol was shot and killed while making a traffic stop on January 19 at approximately 3:15 a.m. The trooper, who had more than 2 years’ law enforcement experience, was in Ashland County investigating a report of a reckless driver when he stopped a vehicle being driven erratically. Investigation indicates the trooper approached the stopped car from the driver’s side and asked for the man’s driver’s license. The man replied that he did not have a license and then produced a .45-caliber semiautomatic handgun and fired, striking the trooper in his left arm. Incapacitated, the trooper turned and fled to his patrol car as the man continued to fire at him. The trooper sustained a fatal shot that entered his lower back below his body armor and struck his heart. He fell to the ground at the rear of his vehicle where he was subsequently found dead. A 30-year-old man who had allegedly shot and wounded his mother during an argument earlier in the day was later apprehended after a high speed chase by the Ohio State Highway Patrol. He has been charged with Aggravated Homicide. On March 2, a Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority patrol officer with nearly 4 years of law enforcement experience was shot and killed at approximately 2:10 a.m. The 27-year-old, off-duty patrol officer was working in uniform at a bar where he refused to admit three persons shortly after 10 p.m. At approximately 2:10 a.m. as the bar was closing, one of the three returned to the bar, approached the victim officer from behind and fired three fatal rounds into the back of his head. The victim officer attempted to draw his

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