- Philadelphia Police Officer Shane Seiber was posthumously promoted to sergeant and awarded the Purple Heart and Medal of Honor at his funeral.
- He was fatally shot on duty while responding to a report of an armed man in West Philadelphia.
- Speakers, including Pennsylvania’s governor and Philadelphia’s police commissioner, honored his kindness, service, and sacrifice.
Slain Philadelphia Police Officer Shane Seiber was remembered Tuesday as a hero, not for the way he died, but for the way he lived.
A devoted husband and father of two small children living in Bucks County, who didn’t give up after the Philadelphia Police Academy rejected his application.
A U.S. Air Force combat veteran who served two tours of duty in Iraq where he freed mice from certain death in sticky traps. A devoted friend who camped out at the hospital bedside of another police officer for days after he was shot…