John B. Gendron, 43, a White male, was a Warwick police officer working the railroad line through the Pawtuxet Valley when a routine check turned deadly. Accounts preserved by local historians describe how Gendron and fellow officer Patrick Shield surprised a man sleeping in a freight car at the Arctic railroad station�then part of Warwick�where the intruder fired and bolted into the darkness of the surrounding woods. The encounter left Gendron gravely wounded, the assailant unidentified, and a
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