In the early morning hours of April 14, 1984, a sense of duty called 26-year-old Norfolk Police Officer Douglas Eric Drye to a residence on Green Street. Responding to a report of shots fired, he and another officer arrived to find a woman suffering from a gunshot wound inside a car. As they attempted to render aid, a man from inside the nearby home opened fire with an M-1 rifle, striking Officer Drye.
Despite the immediate danger, his fellow officer and two citizens pulled the fallen pol
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