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| Friends, family, officials gather to honor slain corrections officer |
| By thetimes-tribune.com - Bill Wellock |
| Published: 07/22/2013 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - NANTICOKE - The place where Eric Williams is memorialized is a spot he must have passed by frequently. Growing up in Nanticoke, he would have been close every time he drove down South Prospect Street. He wouldn't have been far away during his time as a student at Luzerne County Community College, either. A plaque commemorating Officer Williams, who died after an attack while he was on duty at the U.S. Penitentiary at Canaan, now hangs in the college's Walk of Honor. Family, friends, fellow correctional officers and government officials gathered Saturday to remember him. "It's nice to know that there's a plaque in his honor in the town he grew up in and the school he attended," said Donald Williams, Eric's father. "That's particularly comforting." Read More. |
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