The retired police officer was posthumously awarded the city police department's medal of honor and promoted to lieutenant.
GETZVILLE, N.Y. — The retired police officer killed while trying to stop the gunman in a racist attack at a Buffalo supermarket was awarded the department’s medal of honor at his funeral Wednesday, as the country processedBuffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia also posthumously promoted Aaron Salter to lieutenant, saying his actions on May 14 —“Aaron bravely fought evil that day,” Gramaglia said at The Chapel in Getzville, where law enforcement officers from U.S.
The 18-year-old suspect, Payton Gendron, of Conklin, has been charged with murder and is being held without bail.Gendron was in a Buffalo City courtroom with his attorneys Wednesday to ask a judge to bar Erie County prosecutors from commenting about the case to avoid influencing potential jurors.
Mourners remembered Young as a God-fearing woman and cherished friend. She was a longtime volunteer in her church’s soup kitchen and worked as a substitute teacher in Buffalo Public Schools.“Her name is beautiful, just like a beautiful pearl,” Young’s oldest sister, Mary Craig of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, said during the service held at Elim Christian Fellowship in Buffalo.
“She was excited to return to the classroom and enjoyed working with the high school students. Pearl was a hard worker and dedicated to the students she served,” Williams said, reading from the letter.
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