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1,500 attend service for slain Michigan bailiff Joseph Zangaro

(About 1,500 people, including several hundred police officers, gathered Friday, July 15, 2016, at Lake Michigan College's Mendel Center in Benton Harbor to remember 61-year-old Joseph Zangaro. Photo supplied/ABC 57)

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Hundreds of law enforcement officers have attended a celebration of life service for one of two bailiffs slain after an inmate tried to escape from a southwestern Michigan courthouse.

MLive.com reports that about 1,500 people gathered Friday at Lake Michigan College’s Mendel Center in Benton Harbor to remember 61-year-old Joseph Zangaro.

Zangaro and 63-year-old Ronald Kienzle were killed Monday in Berrien County Circuit Court in St. Joseph. Both were retired police officers.

A handcuffed Larry Darnell Gordon disarmed Deputy James Atterberry Jr. during a fight and shot him. Zangaro and Kienzle were shot in a public hallway.

A woman also was shot in the arm. Hostages were briefly taken before Gordon was fatally shot by other bailiffs.

Services will be held Monday at the Mendel Center for Kienzle.

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