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July 15, 2021
RAPID CITY, S.D. The Rapid City Fire Department adding a shiny new piece of equipment Thursday – something that’s been two years in the making.
Fire Station 1 held a ceremony to inaugurate a brand new ambulance that was delivered back in March.
The department was supposed to get the unit back in 2019, but due to the pandemic, they didn’t receive it until this year, and because of supply-chain delays in getting necessary equipment, they’re just now able to put it into service.
The new ambulance will join RCFD’s fleet of 13 and allow them to move older, higher-mileage vehicles into back-up status.
Three Terre Haute Police Department deaths in 10 years - the city s mayor shares his thoughts
The death of Detective Greg Ferency marks the third line of duty death for the Terre Haute Police Department in a decade.
Posted: Jul 8, 2021 5:58 PM
Posted By: Porsha Williams / Chris Essex
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - The death of Detective Greg Ferency marks the third line of duty death for the Terre Haute Police Department in a decade.
All three of those deaths happened while Mayor Duke Bennett was in office.
We talked with the mayor about the loss of three public servants. It makes no sense to any of us why that happened yesterday. We ve experienced three losses in a really short period of time. It s just devastating. It really is, Mayor Bennett said.
By Web Desk
Jul 8, 2021 | 5:33 PM
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTWO/WAWV) – A memorial was set up behind the Terre Haute Police Department headquarters Thursday afternoon for fallen THPD Officer, Detective Greg Ferency.
Detective Ferency was assigned with the FBI Task Force on behalf of the Terre Haute Police Department and had been working with them since 2010. He was ambushed, shot and killed around 2:15 p.m. Wednesday at the FBI Indianapolis Resident Agency in Terre Haute.
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The community will gather at 8 p.m. Thursday outside the Terre Haute Police Department for a candlelight vigil to remember all officers who have lost their lives in the line of duty.
The complaint gives no possible motive for the Wednesday afternoon attack outside the FBI office in Terre Haute that killed Terre Haute police Detective Greg Ferency, a 30-year department veteran who had been a federal task force officer since 2010.
Meehan ran as an independent candidate for Terre Haute mayor in 2019, the (Terre Haute) Tribune-Star reported. He told the newspaper that he took early retirement from the U.S. Penitentiary at Terre Haute and was running to take the city back to the basics.
He called Terre Haute a poor town (with) a lot of money going out and said we could use a little bit better government in city officials and communications with the general public. Meehan received less than 1% of the general election vote.
Indiana gunman faces federal murder charge in shooting of police officer
By AP NEWS
Indiana police officer fatally shot in ambush while on duty
Detective Greg Ferency, a 30-year veteran of the Terre Haute Police Department, was shot and killed in the line of duty.
INDIANAPOLIS - The gunman accused of fatally shooting an Indiana police officer threw a Molotov cocktail at an FBI field office before the deadly encounter, according to a federal court document.
The criminal complaint released Thursday by the U.S. attorney’s office in Indianapolis charges 44-year-old Shane Meehan with premeditated murder of a federal agent.