Indianapolis police Officer Rod Bradway, 41, was killed after forcing entry on a domestic disturbance at the Eagle Pointe Apartment complex in the early morning of September 20, 2013. At about 1:50 a.m. he heard a woman screaming and entered an apartment where 24-year-old Steven Byrdo had been holding a woman and her infant daughter hostage for three hours. Byrdo, hiding behind the door, fired a .380-caliber handgun at least six times, mortally wounding Officer Bradway in the chest above his bullet-resistant vest.

Bradway managed to return fire and struck Byrdo before a second officer arrived and fatally shot Byrdo in the ensuing exchange. Bradway was taken to Wishard Memorial Hospital and died about two hours later. The woman and her child were physically unharmed. A five-year department veteran and former volunteer firefighter, Bradway was survived by his wife and two teenage children and was posthumously awarded the department’s Medal of Honor and Purple Heart.

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