Sub-Patrolman Andrew J. Kelly, aged 29, was shot and killed on October 4, 1903, while investigating a disturbance near the Lincoln Avenue Bridge in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Kelly, who served with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police for three years, was assigned to a plainclothes detail in response to recent thefts at a local business. As he attempted to intervene in the altercation between a man and a woman, the man fired several shots, hitting Kelly. Despite being wounded, Kelly managed to return
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