Charles S. Mehlberg, a 25-year-old police officer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, tragically lost his life on December 23, 1981. Officer Mehlberg, along with his colleague Officer John Machajewski, was responding to an armed robbery at Alfred’s House of Bourbon, a local bar. The suspect, after grabbing a woman around the neck and holding a gun to her head, announced the robbery and demanded money from the bartender. As the bartender complied, the suspect fired a shot at a patron, though no one was
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