DENNIS WARREN FINCH
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Officer Rank: Sergeant
Memorial Panel: 28-W: 21
Department: Traverse City, Michigan, P.D.
End of Watch: May 13, 1998
Cause: SHOT
Age: 52
Years of Service: 30
Description: Sergeant Finch responded to a local residence where a disturbed man with a gun was seen walking around his home. Sergeant Finch was the first officer on the scene. He talked to suspect about an hour and convinced him to return inside his home. As Sergeant Finch followed suspect back inside residence, suspect turned suddenly, grabbed an assault weapon from inside home, and shot Sergeant Finch more than fifty times.
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