Highway 115 bridge dedication to honour Peterborough OPP officer who died in line of duty
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The Otonabee River Bridge on Highway 115 will be dedicated to Const. Norman F. Maker, who was fatally shot in 1928 while serving with the Peterborough OPP.
A bridge dedication ceremony in Peterborough, Ont., on Friday will honour an Ontario Provincial Police officer who died in the line of duty in the city 96 years ago to the day.
On Friday, May 3, the Otonabee River Bridge on Highway 115 will be dedicated to Const. Norman F. Maker, who died in 1928 while serving with the Peterborough OPP.
OPP Commissioner Thomas Carrique will be in attendance for the ceremony, which will be held at the Peterborough Drill Hall / Armoury National Historic Site of Canada at 222 Murray St. in Peterborough.
According to the Ontario Police Memorial Foundation, the 32-year-old Maker and another officer were responding to a disturbance at the Montgomery Hotel regarding a man threatening people with a gun.
Maker and the other officer entered the hotel and the suspect fled up a set of stairs. As the officers followed, Maker exited his room with a handgun, the OPP states.
Maker and the other officer were shot as they fled down the stairway. Maker died from his injuries. The suspect fled but was eventually fatally shot by other Peterborough officers, according to the foundation.
The Ontario Provincial Police Association notes Maker had served six years with the OPP and is to date the only police officer killed in the line of duty in Peterborough. He left behind his wife Muriel and their two daughters, a three-year-old and a three-month-old.
Before arriving in Peterborough in 1924, Maker first joined the OPP in Belleville in 1922.
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