AROUND THE COUNTRY yrs. KANSAS CITY, MO. Police Officer Christopher Fitzgerald, who was shot and killed at Temple University in Philadelphia, started his career in Sugar Land, Texas. PHILADELPHIA — A police officer who was shot and killed at Temple University in Philadelphia last weekend had ties to the Houston area. Christopher Fitzgerald was shot in the head when he responded to a carjacking report near the campus Saturday night. Fitzgerald, 31, started his law enforcement career in Sugar Land as a detention officer, SLPD said Monday. “Temple University may seem far away, but Officer Christopher Fitzgerald, who tragically lost his life in the line of duty 2/28/23, was close to our hearts here at Sugar Land PD,” they said on Facebook. “Our hearts are heavy with the loss of Officer Fitzgerald and we ask that you keep his family and department in your prayers.” Fitzgerald left behind a wife and four children and came from a law enforcement family. His father, Joel Fitzgerald, was the Missouri City police chief from 2009 to 2013 and the Fort Worth police chief from 2015 to 2019. The Philadelphia district attorney’s office said 18-year-old Miles Pfeffer will face charges of murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking and weapons crimes. “Pfeffer is also alleged to have attempted to rob Officer Fitzgerald of his gun and to have gone through his pockets, while the officer was laying on the ground and fatally wounded,” District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement Sunday. “Pfeffer is further alleged to have committed a carjacking a short time after, close to the location of the officer’s murder.” The Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said Pfeffer was taken into custody shortly after 7 a.m. Sunday at his Buckingham Township home by township and Philadelphia police as well as state police and federal marshals. “Police used the fallen officer’s handcuffs in placing the suspect under arrest,” county prosecutors said. Temple University officials said Fitzgerald had been on the university police force since October 2021. “Officer Fitzgerald gave his life to selflessly serve and defend this community,” Jennifer Griffin, the university’s vice president for public safety, said in a statement. “This loss leaves an enormous hole in all of our hearts. He was a father, a husband, a son, a colleague and a friend.” OFFICER CHRISTOPHER FITZGERALD University president Jason Wingard said he was “heartbroken” and called the shooting “a gut-wrenching reminder of our police officers’ daily bravery and sacrifices to protect our students, faculty, staff and community” as the city and the nation deal with “an unprecedented epidemic of violence.” Ken Kaiser, the university’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying it was the first shooting death of a campus officer during his more than 30 years at Temple. “It just shakes everybody to the core,” he said. 32 The BLUES The BLUES 33
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