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Michael Harry Wise Ii

Case from Reading, PA dated Jun 04, 2004

Victim Details

Michael Harry Wise, Ii

Male

White / Caucasian

Reading

PA

2004-06-04

32

Michael

Harry Wise Ii

07/07/2026

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In the late hours of a June night in Reading, Pennsylvania, a dedicated police officer's life was tragically cut short in a hail of gunfire, not from a suspect, but from a fellow officer's weapon. Michael Harry Wise II, a 32-year-old male officer with the Reading Police Department, died on Saturday, June 5, 2004, from a wound sustained during a chaotic shootout. The events of that fateful night unfolded in the 700 block of Schuylkill Avenue, where Officer Wise and two other undercover officers w ...
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