RICHARD F BOSAK
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Officer Rank: Detective
Memorial Panel: 9-W: 8
Department: Baltimore City, Maryland, P.D.
End of Watch: April 18, 1968
Cause: SHOT
Age: 40
Years of Service: 16
Description: Detective Bosak was shot and killed while attempting to arrest a suspect who had escaped custody several days earlier. The suspect had been slipped a gun as he left the City Hospital after being taken there while in custody. Detective Bosak and his partner had gone to a restaurant on Eutaw Street after receiving a tip that the suspect would be there. When they spotted the suspect a struggle ensued and the man shot Detective Bosak in the head with a revolver. The suspect then fled and committed suicide when he was cornered by Detective Bosak's partner.
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