Honoring a fallen officer
Saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the shooting death of Baltimore Police Officer William J. Martin (at left, in picture from Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 3), who at the age of 37 was shot in the head in an ambush while investigating drug dealing in an apartment building on Pennsylvania Avenue. Other officers returned fire and wounded the suspect, who is serving a life sentence.
On Saturday afternoon, 20 years to the day of Martin's death, a flag will be flown over the White House in Washington in his honor. It will then be escorted up the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and will be presented to Martin's eldest son, William J. Martin Jr., at Hogan's Alley bar at 1501 Covington St., at East Fort Avenue.
The public is welcome to attend and should be at the tavern no later than 1:30 p.m. to meet the police escort.
Categories: Confronting crime, Police shootings
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I remember when this happened. My sister lived in this building where the officer was killed. She was a little girl at the time and she was sleep when it happened. When she got up to go to school her mother told her she couldn't go that day because they had the entire area blocked off due to this officer losing his life. This was a horrible incident. I'm glad he wasn't forgotten. They use to have 2 entrances to those apts where you could come from the back or front and that's how this happened. Now you can only enter through the front. My sister & her mother has long since moved from that area. It's still a very bad area.
Posted by: Rita of B-more | October 9, 2009 9:42 AM