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Officer Aaron Douglas Glenn |
Police Motorcycle Officer Doug Glenn, was responding to a domestic disturbance call the afternoon of November 5, 1983. At approximately 1:45 PM, he was traveling north on US 41-A when a station wagon pulled out into the flow of traffic from the entrance of Magic Wheels. Although traveling at normal speed, Officer Glenn was unable to keep from striking the side of the vehicle. He was thrown from his motorcycle some 39 feet after to point of the impact. The 32 year old officer was taken first to Memorial Hospital, later he was transferred to the Baptist Hospital neurological intensive care unit and was listed in critical condition. Officer Glenn was placed on life support systems after his vital signs, with the exception of his blood pressure, were stabilized. On November 15, a fund was started at Northern Bank to assist Officer Glenn's family, his wife Rhonda and their two children, Catherine Faith and Ryan Douglass. On November 19, 1983, at approximately 10:22 AM, Officer Aaron Douglass Glenn died. Fellow police officers and county deputies immediately placed balck bands across their badges, placed short black streamers on car antennas and the flag at the Criminal Justice Complex was lowered in his memory. On the day of his funeral more than a hundred people, both in and out of uniform and from other law enforcement agencies came to pay their respects to their fellow officer. The somber procession drove past a dozen or more motorcyclist parked along the roadside, with their helmets off as they also paused to pay their respect for the loss of this young officer. At the grave site, a 21 gun salute resounded along with "Taps" as a folded flag was presented to Glenn's widow, Rhonda.
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