“Officer down! Officer down! Emergency!,” the woman’s voice crackled across the radio as she told dispatchers she found the officer outside the car on the side of the exit ramp car at the BG parkway Bloomfield exit. The woman’s voice was followed by that of a man, who told dispatchers he was on his way home from work and drove up to find the police cruiser in the middle of the road with its emergency lights on and the officer was outside the cruiser and was not breathing the man told dispatchers. When Trooper Mike Garyantes arrived on the scene at approximately 3:16 a.m., and minutes after the Trooper’s arrival, he discovered that it was not a motor vehicle crash and that the officer involved had been shot
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