Jeffry Kowalski, a sergeant with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, tragically passed away on October 1, 2008, due to complications from a gunshot wound he sustained on February 19, 1987. On that fateful day, Sergeant Kowalski was chasing a juvenile robbery suspect in the 5000 block of Vernon Avenue when he was shot in the abdomen. The bullet caused severe injuries to his pancreas, liver, stomach, and inferior vena cava, the vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the lower part of
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