Lieutenant Jerry E. Dragosin, 34, was a veteran Cambridge Police Department officer and a Vietnam War veteran who had served the department for 12 years. On August 21, 1984, he was fatally shot in the driveway of the police department after a suspect who had previously had a handgun confiscated returned seeking the weapon. A dispatcher told Dragosin the man was at the station and reportedly carrying another handgun. When Dragosin approached, a struggle broke out and the suspect gained control of Dragosin’s service revolver and shot him.

As the suspect fled, he ran into an off-duty officer and an exchange of gunfire wounded both men. The suspect continued to flee, prompting a 50-mile pursuit into West Virginia where he was captured. The 30-year-old suspect, identified as Donald Glenn, was convicted of Dragosin’s murder and originally sentenced to death; that sentence was later overturned and converted to life imprisonment. Dragosin was survived by his wife and daughter.