Thursday, March 3, 2011

To Serve and Protect

A well-deserved paid medical retirement with full pension.

Man o' Law salutes you Officer Brandy Roell for your service although to brief by half.


Wounded in 2008 ambush, SAPD officer retires
By Guillermo X. Garcia - Express-News

A San Antonio police officer fresh from the training academy when she was shot in the back in a September 2008 ambush was given a medical retirement with a full pension Wednesday.

A room crowded with members of her graduating class and a host of other officers and department brass gathered to honor Officer Brandy Roell, who walks with a limp and relies on a cane.

Roell was ambushed, along with two other officers, as they served a felony arrest warrant on Andres Vargas at his South Side home the evening of Sept. 8, 2008.

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