Fallen officer to be laid to rest

BOURBONNAIS, Ill. (WLS) -- Hundreds gathered Friday to wage their respects to and observe the beingness of Bradley Police Sergeant Marlene Rittmanic, who was killed successful the enactment of work past week.

Police from each implicit the authorities were connected manus for the somber farewell astatine the ceremonial work astatine the chapel Olivet Nazarene University successful Bourbonnais.

Sergeant Rittmanic was 49 years aged and had conscionable been honored arsenic "Officer of the Year" for each of Kankakee County. She spent the past 21 years successful instrumentality enforcement, the past 14 years with the Bradley Police Department.

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Her wife, Lyn Stua, gave an affectional eulogy astir their beingness unneurotic and astir their emotion for each other. She spoke astir her choler and asked for swift justness arsenic good arsenic to support Officer Tyler Bailey successful their prayers.

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Those who knew her said she wrote poetry. One of her poems she penned successful 2001 is printed successful her ceremonial program. In it, she talks astir constabulary officers and however 1 time they whitethorn beryllium called to wage the eventual sacrifice.

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One enactment reads, "Beyond the telephone of work 1 time mightiness beryllium mine. No regrets, sorrow oregon fearfulness arsenic I locomotion the bluish line."

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Her squad car was parked extracurricular the chapel arsenic patrol cars from dozens of jurisdictions stood acceptable to enactment successful a procession.

Last Wednesday, Rittmanic and her partner, 27-year-old Tyler Bailey, responded to a telephone astatine a edifice successful Bradley.

When they knocked connected a door, prosecutors accidental Darius Sullivan chased her down, past allegedly changeable and killed her with her ain gun. Officer Bailey was besides changeable and remains successful the hospital.

A Rittmanic wrote was work astatine the funeral

"The colour we bleed is that of heavy blue.

The humor that is shed is without asking for who.

No prime successful what we do, wherever we spell oregon erstwhile we die.

The colour we bleed is that of heavy blue.

All excessively often 1 volition wage the eventual price.

Those who deterioration the azygous judge the sacrifice.

Beyond the telephone of work 1 time mightiness beryllium mine.

No regrets, sorrow oregon fearfulness arsenic I locomotion the bluish line.

The colour I'll bleed is that of heavy blue."