Pam Robtoy and her fiancé, John Perry, at a Gateway Grizzlies ballgame in June 2010. Perry, a deputy U.S. marshal, was fatally wounded in 2011 while serving a search warrant in St. Louis. Perry donated his organs, and Robtoy is organizing an organ donation registration drive in his honor. Photo courtesy of the family
A year ago, John Perry, a deputy U.S. marshal, lost his life trying to arrest a man at a home in south St. Louis.
Perry was a team leader on the fugitive task force, and he was known for his ability to diffuse tense situations.
"In 10 years of being a marshal, he never discharged his weapon because he never had to," said his fiancée, Pam Robtoy.
But this time the wanted man, Carlos Boles, opened fire. Perry was shot in the head, and two other officers were wounded. Boles, who was wanted on charges of assaulting a police officer and drug possession, was killed in the exchange of gunfire that followed.
Robtoy said she was at the hospital an hour after the shooting, and doctors already knew that Perry wouldn't recover.
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