article_snippet: No one is sure exactly how many officers pitched in or from which departments exactly how many officers came. '
article_snippet: I don't even know where exactly how many officers were from.'
article_snippet: the 8-year department veteran instinctively moved from the counter to draw the suspects' gunfire away from innocent bystanders and returned fire, police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.
article_snippet: More than 50 shots were fired during the fierce gunbattle, investigators said. '
article_snippet: the 8-year department veteran never stopped until that fatal round was fired,' police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told the assembled crowd, many of whom were law enforcement officers from across the country whose dress uniforms formed patterns of blues and tans inside the Palestra sports arena.