WALTER A SCHROEDER
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Officer Rank: Patrolman
Memorial Panel: 16-W: 1
Department: Boston, Massachusetts, P.D.
End of Watch: September 24, 1970
Cause: SHOT
Age: 42
Years of Service: 19
Description: Robbery. Shot by suspect during bank robbery. Student radicals had attempted to rob the bank for funds to aid in their attempt to end the war in Viet-Nam. One of the students, Katherine Ann Power, surrendered to authorities in 1993. Walter Schroder's brother, John Schroeder, was killed in the line of duty three years later, in another failed bank robbery attempt.
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