Lawrence Michael Jupin was 34 when he died on November 29, 2002, in a Gardner nursing home from complications of wounds he suffered in the line of duty. An officer with the Westminster Police Department for eight years, Jupin never regained consciousness after being shot during an early morning encounter on May 10, 1999.

On May 10, 1999, while backing up a fellow officer who was checking a man in camouflage on Route 31, Jupin chased the man into nearby woods. The suspect produced a .357 caliber handgun and an exchange of gunfire followed. Both men were wounded; Jupin was struck in the face, leg, and hip and soon fell into a coma that lasted more than three years. The suspect survived and was taken into custody.

The shooter was identified but later found incompetent to stand trial and committed to a state hospital; in 2009 he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. What details are known about Jupin’s life in Westminster or about witnesses that night?