Ryan Adamson of the Terre Haute Police Department wrote on Twitter that Detective Ferency “was killed in the line of duty today.” The department did not return an email message seeking further details on Wednesday evening. Image Detective Greg Ferency was a 30-year veteran of the Terre Haute Police Department. Credit... Terre Haute Police DepartmentGov. “We lost a true public servant today,” the Indiana State Police superintendent, Douglas G. Carter, said in a brief news conference on Wednesday afternoon. In 2020, 369 law enforcement officers were killed in the line of duty, 45 of them by intentional gunfire, it said.

Source: New York Times July 08, 2021 03:45 UTC