In the early morning hours of May 28, 2003, a sense of duty called 23-year-old Chesterfield County Police Officer Ryan Eugene Cappelletty to a neighborhood in Midlothian, Virginia. Reports of gunshots had disturbed the quiet of South Ridge Drive, and Cappelletty, a recent graduate of the police academy, responded to the scene with a fellow officer. It was a call that would tragically be his last, cutting short a life of promise and service.
Upon their arrival shortly before 7:00 a.m., the
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