On a late summer evening, the life of Michigan State Police Trooper Paul Kenyon Butterfield II, a 43-year-old male, was cut short during what began as a routine traffic stop. On September 9, 2013, at approximately 6:20 p.m. on Custer Road in Mason County, Butterfield pulled over a vehicle. Shortly after he radioed in the stop, a passing motorist made a frantic 911 call to report that a trooper had been shot. First responders arrived to find Butterfield on the ground with a gunshot wound to the h
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