*IN THE LINE OF DUTY* OFFICER DOWN

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RIP Officer Shawn Schneider











MN
LAKE CITY – Lake City paid tribute to slain police officer Shawn Schneider Saturday as his family and 2,000 public safety officers from across Minnesota and around the country laid him to rest

Schneider attended his three children’s Christmas pageant the day before Alan J. Sylte Jr., 25, of Hager City, Wis., shot the officer in the head.

Schneider and another officer responded early the morning of Dec. 19 to 618 W. Lyon Ave. in Lake City to a reported domestic incident involving a handgun. Sylte, an Iraq war veteran, had broken up with his 17-year-old girlfriend, it was learned later. Schneider was helping the girl safely escape when he was shot.

After a daylong standoff that included a lockdown of local schools, officers found Sylte dead. He had shot himself in the head.

Schneider, a nine-year veteran of the police department, died of his injuries Dec. 30 at St. Marys Hospital in Rochester.



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