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Officers, Dispatcher Honored For Heroic Efforts

Last updated on Monday, May 5, 2014

(ELKHART) - Two Elkhart police officers and a dispatcher are being honored for their roles in ending a January supermarket attack by a gunman who killed two people.

Elkhart Mayor Dick Moore presented plaques Sunday to Officers Cody Skipper and Jason Tripp and dispatcher Justin Yoder.

Tripp and Skipper were the first officers on the scene of the shootings and confronted 22-year-old Shawn Bair as he threatened to shoot a store manager.

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