By Jamal Thalji, Emily Nipps, Waveney Ann Moore and Stephen Nohlgren
Monday, January 24, 2011
Hydra Lacy Jr., 39, was wanted on an aggravated battery charge.
ST. PETERSBURG
Police Chief Chuck Harmon gazed down at the personal mementos in his outstretched hands.
In the right was the gold wedding ring of K-9 Officer Jeffrey A. Yaslowitz, a 39-year-old father of three who was fatally shot Monday trying to arrest an armed fugitive hiding in an attic. He was off-duty and on his way home when he decided to help his colleagues.
In the chief's left hand was the silver badge of Sgt. Thomas J. Baitinger, the 48-year-old husband mortally wounded when the suspect fired down through the ceiling at officers as they heroically tried to rescue Yaslowitz and an injured deputy U.S. marshal.
The man who rained down bullets from the attic was Hydra Lacy Jr., a 39-year-old ...