On the night of April 12, 2011, a routine traffic stop in Trumann, Arkansas, turned into a harrowing and tragic event that ended the life of 30-year-old male Police Officer Jonathan Richard Schmidt. A four-year veteran of the Trumann Police Department, Schmidt was a married father of three who had a lifelong ambition to be a police officer in his hometown.
That evening, at approximately 11:30 p.m., Patrolman Schmidt and his sergeant, Corey Overstreet, pulled over a vehicle on Pine Avenue
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