The 64-year-old officer was escorting a local store manager to a bank when the pair was confronted by four suspects, police said. He was shot while attempting to fire his service weapon.
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Boston Police Officer Louis Metaxas died in the line of duty on Sunday, Aug. 27, 1989, after falling from a rooftop while searching for a burglary suspect.