On a spring evening, the life of a young police officer was tragically cut short in a wooded area near the Wilkes-Barre-Scranton Airport. Patrolman Richard Gordon Janczewski, a 23-year-old male who had been with the Avoca Borough Police Department for a mere three months, was investigating a suspicious vehicle on May 27, 1986. As he approached the car, a man emerged from the nearby woods.
Patrolman Janczewski requested identification from the individual. The man walked to his vehicle, but
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