‘He Saved Some Lives’: Cop-Turned-Guard Killed in Battle With Buffalo Gunman

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“I don’t think anybody could ever anticipate something like this happening,” a cousin of the slain former police officer told The Daily Beast.

LOCKPORT, New York—After serving as a Buffalo police officer for 30 years, Aaron Salter Jr. spent the last four working as a security guard atThat’s where he was Saturday afternoon when a gunman stalked in with a military-style assault rifle in his hands and hate in his heart and opened fire.

“Today is a shock,” his son, Aaron Salter III, told The Daily Beast in Lockport, a suburb of Buffalo.Salter, who leaves behind three children, joined the Buffalo Police Department right out of high school.The Buffalo News “I don’t think anybody could ever anticipate something like this happening,” Bennefield, 44, told The Daily Beast. “I don’t think anybody can. Everybody’s hurt right now, everybody’s upset.”

“I’m always working on my vehicles and or my project of running engines on water for the last four years or so,”. “I would like to realize my dream of getting cars to run off of water using my newly discovered energy source some day.”

 

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