WEBSTER, N.Y.?? Thousands of police and firefighters are paying respects to a police lieutenant slain in a fiery Christmas Eve ambush on the shore of Lake Ontario in Upstate New York.
The funeral of Lt. Michael Chiapperini, 43, was held Sunday in a high school in the town of Webster, where Chiapperini was also a volunteer fireman. Chiapperini and fellow firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, were fatally shot by William Spengler early Monday morning when they arrived at a fire that Spengler had set at his lakeside home.
Two other firefighters were wounded before Spengler, 62, killed himself. Spengler had served 17 years for killing his elderly grandmother, beating her head with a hammer.
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A long line of police, firefighters, and state troopers, hats clutched across their chests, filed silently past Chiapperini's flag-draped casket in the high school auditorium before the service began.
Kaczowka's funeral is on Monday. He was best friends with Lt. Chiapperini's son.
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Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50324690/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
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