On a summer day in Cheektowaga, New York, 27-year-old Robert A. Burgess, a male Patrol Officer with the Cheektowaga Police Department, was responding to a call at Sattler's Drugs Store on William Street on Friday, July 1, 1977. While attempting to arrest a man for disorderly conduct, a struggle ensued. The suspect managed to gain control of another officer's revolver and fired six shots. One of the bullets struck Officer Burgess in the chest.
The single gunshot wound proved to be fatal fo
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