PITTSBURGH — The camaraderie of the job — a sense of responsibility, a solemn duty — drew thousands of law enforcement officers and other first responders from across the state and country on Wednesday to honor a small-town police chief slain in his own neighborhood last week.
Brackenridge police Chief Justin McIntire was killed in the line of duty Jan. 2, four years to the day after he was sworn in as chief of his hometown.
The officers filled the lawn at Mount Saint Peter Roman Catholic Church in nearby New Kensington and lined the street leading up to it as a horse-drawn hearse carried the chief the short walk from the Ross Walker Funeral Home. They stood silently at attention as the hearse and the chief’s family passed by.
