Fallen Ypsilanti officer killed in 1975 bank robbery honored with street renaming

YPSILANTI, MI — Fifty years after an Ypsilanti police patrolman was killed in the line of duty, streets signs bear his name.

Douglas Downing died in a shootout with a bank robber July 11, 1975 at the former National Bank of Ypsilanti at the corner of Park Street and Michigan Avenue…

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