On the morning of January 2, 1996, Philadelphia Police Officer Lauretha Arnetha Vaird, a 43-year-old female, responded to a silent alarm at a PNC Bank branch in the Feltonville neighborhood. A nine-year veteran of the force and a single mother of two sons, she was the first to arrive at the scene of what was an active and violent bank robbery. As she entered the bank, she was shot in the abdomen. Despite wearing a bulletproof vest, the protective panels were not inside, and the single gunshot wo
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