In the early morning hours of September 27, 1964, a call regarding an unknown trouble at an apartment complex on Seay Street in Alexandria, Virginia, set in motion a tragic chain of events. Private Eugene Yoakum, a 31-year-old officer with the Alexandria Police Department, responded to the call for backup. A U.S. Marine Corps veteran who had served with the police department for a decade, Yoakum was a respected member of the force and one of the first to be part of the K-9 Corps with his German
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