Police from across state attend officer's funeral

TUSCOLA – Several hundred police officers from across the state honored a fallen comrade, Tommy Martin, at his funeral Sunday in Tuscola.

They came from surrounding counties and communities, from Chicago and its collar counties, from Winnebago County on the Wisconsin border, Cass County to the west and Robinson to the southeast. There were representatives from the Secretary of State Police, the Department of Natural Resources Conservation Police, even U.S. Customs & Border Protection.

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