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Aurora city leaders honored fallen cops during Peace Officers Memorial Day

Fallen cops honored during National Peace Officers Memorial Day
Fallen cops honored during National Peace Officers Memorial Day 00:22

AURORA, Ill. (CBS) -- Today is National Peace Officers Memorial Day.

City leaders in Aurora are honoring recently fallen officers.

In January 2022, Officer Brian Shields and Sergeant Kenneth Thurman died from COVID-19.

Both Shields and Kenneth were 51 years old.

Several Aurora police officers gathered to lay wreaths honoring the department's fallen members.

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