Duty Death: Sgt. Kelvin Ansari - [Savannah]
End of Service: 12/05/2019
Associated Press
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Police in Georgia’s oldest city are mourning after a 50-year-old patrol sergeant was fatally shot as officers hunted for an armed robbery suspect.
Fellow officers, prosecutors, judges and city officials in Savannah laid flowers Monday on the hood of a patrol vehicle as a memorial to Sgt. Kelvin Ansari. He died after being shot late Saturday while helping investigate a robbery outside a barber shop.
Ansari’s supervisor, Lt. Gregory Mitchell, said the two of them had exchanged jokes and laughter while passing each other between shifts Saturday. A few hours later, Mitchell was driving Ansari’s wife to the hospital after the shooting.
He says “it’s almost unbelievable.”
A second officer survived after being shot in the leg.
The suspected shooter, 49-year-old Edward Fuller Jr., was shot and killed by police.