Blood Drive To Honor Fallen Harford Sheriff's Deputies

BEL AIR, MD — The Harford County Sheriff's Office and American Red Cross are teaming up to host a blood drive this month in Harford County to memorialize two deputies killed in the line of duty. It will be held four years after they were fatally shot.

Senior Deputy Patrick Dailey, 52, and Deputy First Class Mark Logsdon, 43, were shot and killed in Abingdon on Feb. 10, 2016.

As Dailey was responding to a tip about a wanted individual, the suspect shot him inside the Panera in the 3400 block of Merchant Boulevard in Abingdon. There were at least two warrants for the killer's arrest, including one for assaulting a police officer in Florida, officials later said.

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After shooting Dailey, the gunman ran from Panera and hid. Logsdon was trying to find him outside the Park View Apartments when the suspect opened fire from the driver's seat of a 2004 Ford Taurus where authorities believed he had been living.

The suspect was fatally shot in a gunfight with officers. Authorities said they believed he had been stalking his ex wife in Abingdon.

"I fully suspect it was his intention..to take some sort of action," Harford County Sheriff Jeffrey Gahler said at the time, adding of deputies Dailey and Logsdon: "...through their loss, lives were saved."

Someone needs blood every two to three seconds, according to the Red Cross.

"On the 4th anniversary of the day we tragically lost two of our heroes, take time to give blood and be a hero for someone else," organizers of the event wrote on the flyer for the blood drive.

People can get more information online and scan the flyer to make an appointment.

The blood drive will be from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 10, at the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company, 1401 Old Mountain Road South, Joppa, MD 21085.