Slain Harford Sheriff Deputies Remembered as ‘Heroes’

McComas Funeral Home in Abingdon is handling the arrangements.

Deputy Dauley was sent to a Panera restaurant to check on a man acting erratically.

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The shooting was reported to police at the time, but Rupp said she hadn’t seen the shooter, and no one was charged.

“It’s our belief that because [Evans] knew there was a warrant out for his arrest … that is why he took the action against the police officer”, Gahler said. He was a decorated, non-commissioned officer with the Army from 1991 to 1999 and was deployed to Iraq with the Maryland National Guard in 2003, where he served as a military policeman. According to the Harford County Sherriff’s Office, Dailey, a 30-year veteran of the force, was a member of the Joppa Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company and a U.S. Marine, the press release stated.

Dailey was transported to Maryland Shock Trauma by Maryland State Police helicopter.

“Aside from police officers, these were just two guys, that had families, that had lives, and I just couldn’t imagine, to get that news”, Highkin said.

He said his mother told him about the shooting, but he did not immediately learn his father had died. The semi-automatic handgun found in his vehicle was purchased legally in Pennsylvania in 1993.

According to the initial investigation, Gahler said, after a warrant for obstructing police was issued in October in Florida, Evans relocated to the Harford County area where he was living.

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Jeremy Evans, David Evans’ son, told WBAL-TV in Baltimore that his mother initially called the Sheriff’s Office about Evans being at the Panera on Monday.

“Pat Dailey never even unholstered his gun”, Gahler said.

Logsdon had been with the sheriff’s department for 16 years, working out of the community services division. He is survived by his wife, three children and his parents.

Gahler says both served on the agency’s honor guard and were proud to wear the uniform. About a month before Wednesday’s deadly shooting, he said his younger brother also saw their father in the restaurant and called police, but that they were directed to the department’s warrant section and their father wasn’t arrested.

Her mother, Lynn Faulkner, a registered nurse, said she recognized the man and believed he was mentally ill and in need of social services.

The gunman, David Brian Evans, pulled out a pistol and shot the officer in the head without warning, mortally wounding him.

Upon hearing from her sons that he may have been spotted in Harford County and was at the Panera in Abingdon, she went to the restaurant to see for herself, then alerted the sheriff’s office that she thought there was a warrant out for his arrest and was afraid he was going to hurt her, according to Jeremie Evans.