In the early morning hours of Saturday, December 13, 2003, a call regarding shots being fired on Battell Street in Mishawaka, Indiana, set in motion a tragic chain of events. Twenty-seven-year-old Patrolman Bryan Scott Verkler, a male officer with the Mishawaka Police Department, responded to the scene along with his colleague, Corporal Thomas Roberts. The initial dispute involved a man who, after a disagreement with a neighbor, had discharged a firearm into the air.
The officers were dir
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