New Jersey Police Officer Dies Hours After Jumping Into River to Rescue Fleeing Suspect

New Jersey Police Officer Dies Hours After Jumping Into River to Rescue Fleeing Suspect
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Officer Sean Peek of Bridgeton Police Department, New Jersey, is being remembered after he lost his life in a attempted river rescue.

It was Sept. 6, and Peek, 49, was working night patrol at around 1:30 a.m. when he got a call of a suspect striking an ambulance with an unidentified object while it was leaving the Bridgeton Fire Department’s EMT satellite station, according to NJ.com.