An American flag draped over the casket.
A Buffalo Police honor guard folds the flag from the casket of retired Buffalo Police officer Aaron Salter, at the end of Salter's memorial services at The Chapel at Crosspoint on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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Three friends of Aaron Salter, the retired police officer killed in the Tops Markets massacre on May 14, are at the center of a scholarship at Hutchinson Central Technical High School, where Salter graduated almost 40 years ago. The annual award will go to a student “mechanically inclined and interested in improving upon existing technology in such a way that would make life easier and better for future generations,” someone whose work ethic and civic passion echo Salter’s.
Office workers from buildings around Crosspoint line the street to pay respects as the memorial procession for retired Buffalo Police officer Aaron Salter passes as it departs The Chapel at Crosspoint on Wednesday, May 25, 2022.
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"Even though you leave the job, the job doesn't leave you. I know he was thinking about, something was going wrong here. People's lives were in danger, and he was probably the only person who was in there that could help and save people," said retired Lt. Steven Malkowski.
The son of the security guard killed in the May 14 Tops shooting accepted a diploma posthumously awarded to his father at Saturday's commencement at Canisius College.
Aaron Salter, the retired Buffalo police officer who was working as a security guard at the Tops on Jefferson Avenue, was laid to rest Wednesday, May 25. He was posthumously awarded the Buffalo Police Department Medal of Honor and promoted to the rank of lieutenant. His former colleagues started a scholarship in his honor. “Aaron saved lives,” Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia said at his funeral.
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