In the pre-dawn hours of a summer Sunday, a palpable sense of duty propelled 23-year-old Melvin Vincent Santiago, a male who had only been a police officer for a matter of months, to respond to a robbery call at a 24-hour Walgreens in Jersey City, New Jersey. It was July 13, 2014, and the rookie officer was about to unknowingly confront a man who had orchestrated a violent ambush. Inside the pharmacy, 27-year-old Lawrence Campbell had assaulted an armed security guard, taking his firearm not for
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