John B. Gendron, 43, a White male, was a Warwick police officer working the railroad line through the Pawtuxet Valley when a routine check turned deadly. Accounts preserved by local historians describe how Gendron and fellow officer Patrick Shield surprised a man sleeping in a freight car at the Arctic railroad station—then part of Warwick—where the intruder fired and bolted into the darkness of the surrounding woods. The encounter left Gendron gravely wounded, the assailant unidentified, an
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