In the early morning hours of August 18, 2004, the Indianapolis Police Department suffered a tragic loss when Officer Timothy Jacob 'Jake' Laird, a 31-year-old male, was killed in the line of duty. Laird, a dedicated officer who had served with the department for nearly four and a half years and was a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, responded to emergency calls reporting a man walking through a neighborhood on the south side of Indianapolis armed with a rifle. The incident unfolded in
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