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05-20-2005, 19:27
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Courtesy: Brainerd Dispatch Newspaper
Lawmakers at held a minute of silence Friday afternoon in honor of a Wadena police officer who died while on duty Thursday.
The 47-year-old police officer was responding to a domestic disturbance call when he collapsed and later died of an apparent heart attack.
Peter Resch collapsed after he and another officer arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday night, according to the Wadena Police Department.
The man briefly struggled and was handcuffed and searched. As officers took the man out of an apartment, Resch collapsed in the hallway, police said.
Officers and emergency medical personnel administered CPR and other life support measures, but Resch was later pronounced dead at Tri-County Hospital, police said.
The Wadena County Sheriff's Office was investigating the case. An autopsy on Resch's body was scheduled for Friday.
Resch was a 15-year veteran of the department.
Courtesy: Brainerd Dispatch Newspaper
Lawmakers at held a minute of silence Friday afternoon in honor of a Wadena police officer who died while on duty Thursday.
The 47-year-old police officer was responding to a domestic disturbance call when he collapsed and later died of an apparent heart attack.
Peter Resch collapsed after he and another officer arrested a 19-year-old man Thursday night, according to the Wadena Police Department.
The man briefly struggled and was handcuffed and searched. As officers took the man out of an apartment, Resch collapsed in the hallway, police said.
Officers and emergency medical personnel administered CPR and other life support measures, but Resch was later pronounced dead at Tri-County Hospital, police said.
The Wadena County Sheriff's Office was investigating the case. An autopsy on Resch's body was scheduled for Friday.
Resch was a 15-year veteran of the department.