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10 de ago. de 2023 · More than 10 years after Cold Spring Police Officer Tommy Decker was killed in the line of duty, a bronze monument dedicated to him will be unveiled. Organizers raised nearly $71,000 to create...
- Tom Decker as A Child
- Officer Tom Decker
- The Last Call
- The Investigation
- Contact with Thomes
- The Funeral
- The Memorial
- Dreams
- Conclusion
Tommy Decker was raised on the Decker Dairy Farm just outside Cold Spring, Minnesota. According to his mother, Rosella Decker, he was called to law enforcement when as a small child he became separated from his older sister inside the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. While afraid and hopelessly lost, a kind man wearing a badge and a ...
Rosella Decker, who says she finds “great comfort” in talking about Tom, now laughed as she recalled, “When he was first sworn in at 20, Tom was too young to buy his own gun, so we had to buy it for him.” Rosella added that Tom worked for departments in Isle, Watkins and Kimble, before he was finally hired by Cold Spring, his hometown. She said, “H...
During the evening shift of November 29, 2012, Tom received a “check welfare” call from a concerned party afraid that a young man who lived in an apartment above Winner’s Sports Bar and Grill in Cold Spring might harm himself. When Officer Decker checked he discovered the man was nowhere around. Tom returned to patrol but was determined to try agai...
Investigators initially focused on the despondent man as a person of interest but cleared him in short order. Gradually they shifted their focus to a 31-year-old man named Eric Thomes. Thomes had been fired the day that Officer Decker was ambushed and people who knew his frame of mind after the firing suspected him of killing Officer Decker.
On January 2, 2013, investigators approached Thomes to make contact with him as he walked up the driveway of his girlfriend’s home. Thomes turned and spotted the investigators and instinctively ran into a pole garage on the property. He refused to come out. When his girlfriend arrived home hours later, the agents entered the pole garage and discove...
Thousands of officers and citizens attended Officer Decker’s funeral. The residents of the Greater Cold Spring area lined the streets of the procession to pay their respects. Officer Decker was laid to rest in a quiet Country Cemetery in St. Nicholas, Minnesota. He left behind a grieving wife and four young children.
Cold Spring, Minnesota is a city of 4,500, and home to people whose lawns are neatly manicured and dotted with “We Support Our Police” signs. Chief Blum says his department feels that support and appreciates it greatly. Now 10 years later, the citizens of Cold Spring wish to erect a substantial police memorial to be dedicated on the tenth anniversa...
Rosella Decker shared a dream that she had after her son’s death. She said in the dream Tom was at the kitchen table on the family farm with two other officers at his side. All three were in uniform and they were talking together. Their message was clear and meant for other officers still serving. Tom’s heavenly message was, “We got your back!” I h...
The citizens of Cold Spring represent the majority of people around the country who support their local police. Never forget how many there are. Just like Tom and his heavenly partners, they’ve got your back!
Before Spineshank formed in 1996, vocalist Jonny Santos, guitarist Mike Sarkisyan, and drummer Tom Decker were members of a band called "Basic Enigma." [5] According to Decker, they learned "everything not to do" in Basic Enigma, and were heavily inspired by Pantera, Slayer, and White Zombie at the time.
25 de nov. de 2022 · It’s been 10 years since an ambush shooting claimed the life of Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker and shook this small central Minnesota community to its core. On Nov. 29, 2012, Decker...
26 de nov. de 2022 · A public reception will honor the lives of slain officers Tom Decker, a Cold Spring officer shot as he responded to a report of a suicidal person in 2012; Brian Klinefelter, a St. Joseph officer...
2 de jul. de 2018 · Records show a 20-gauge shotgun, forensically tied to shell casings found at the scene of officer Decker’s murder, was found at a neighbor’s cabin to which Thomes had access.
