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Gail Cobb, the Metropolitan Police Department's first female officer to die in the line of duty, was honored during a ceremony Saturday that dedicated a street name in her honor.
Cobb was shot to death while on patrol in 1974. Gale Cobb Way is now the name of a street in an area where the former officer grew up --- It is located in what is the 300 block of 14th Place, Northeast.
The ceremony was also followed by a cook-out was held to celebrate Cobb, who died at the age of 24.