Cold Spring to mark one year since police officer Decker's death
AP — Residents of Cold Spring will mark the one-year anniversary of the shooting death of local police officer Tom Decker with an evening candlelight vigil.
• Related: Decker shooting case still unsolved | Funeral services for Officer Tom Decker The St. Cloud Times reports that city employees organized the Friday vigil at the request of Decker's widow, Alicia. It will be from 6 to 6:30 p.m. in the parking lot of city hall.
Decker was on duty last Nov. 29 when he responded to a report of a possibly suicidal man in an apartment above a downtown bar. He was shot behind the bar as he looked for the man in question, who police later cleared in the shooting.
A second man whom police were prepared to arrest for the killing committed suicide in early January.
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