HdG Shines Blue For Fallen Deputies

HAVRE DE GRACE, MD — The downtown district in the city of Havre de Grace is illuminated blue on Saturday, Feb. 10. Mayor William T. Martin ordered the city's lights to shine blue to honor Senior Deputy Patrick Dailey and Deputy First Class Mark Logsdon of the Harford County Sheriff's Office.

The officers were murdered in the line of duty two years ago.

Dailey, 52, and Logsdon, 43, were shot in Abingdon on Feb. 10, 2016, while responding to a call about a wanted individual at Panera in Abingdon.

Two years later, a 39 and 54-year-old officer were killed Saturday afternoon in Westerville, Ohio. They were dispatched to a 911 hangup call at an apartment where Fox News reported they were met with gunfire.

"This painful day reminds us of the difficult and sadly often tragic sacrifices made by members of the law enforcement community each day across our country," the city of Havre de Grace said in a statement Saturday evening. "This day also reconfirms our stance that heinous acts against law enforcement officers can never be tolerated."

In Harford County on Feb. 10, 2016, Dailey was responding to a tip about a wanted individual when the suspect shot him inside the Panera in the 3400 block of Merchant Boulevard. There were at least two warrants for the killer's arrest, including one for assaulting a police officer in Florida, officials later said.

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.

Officials found multiple guns and more than 2,700 rounds of live ammunition inside the car, where the suspect was fatally shot in a gunfight with officers. Authorities said they believed the gunman had been stalking his estranged family in Abingdon, since his phone showed he had been tracking the lives of his three children and ex wife online and was plotting paths to her home and a possible escape route..

To honor the fallen Harford deputies, Havre de Grace is not the only place lit up blue to remember them.

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman ordered county administration buildings to be illuminated blue for the week in memory of the slain deputies and in a show of support for law enforcement as a whole.

Members of the public gathered with Harford County employees in front of the county government building in Bel Air for a moment of silence at noon on Friday, Feb. 9, followed by the sounding of emergency alarms.

Flags will fly at half-staff from sunrise Friday through sunset on Sunday in Harford County to honor the officers who made the supreme sacrifice.

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Photo courtesy of the city of Havre de Grace.