Crime & Safety

PHOTOS: Selectmen Recognize Walpole Police Officers for Answering Call in Aftermath of Marathon Bombings

Walpole's Board of Selectmen recognized and thanked the town's six police officers that were deployed to Boston to assist in the aftermath of the Marathon bombings.

Six Walpole police officers were recognized at Tuesday's Board of Selectmen meeting for their efforts in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings and the manhunt for Suspect #2.

Selectmen thanked police chief Richard Stillman, patrolman Scott Koenig, Detective Sgt. Jim O'Connell, patrolman Luke Parlon and motorcycle patrolman AL Manganello.

These six officers answered the call and assisted in the investigation of the marathon bombing as well as the April 19th manhunt that eventually led to the capture of second bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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After 102 hours of terror, mourning, striving and struggle, police killed one and captured the second marathon bomber suspect. With both of the bombers accounted for, law enforcement nabbed the men responsible for the deadliest domestic bombing attack in the 21st century.

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