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Colleagues mourn CT Police Trooper Pelletier: We have ‘senselessly lost a great hero’

As state and federal officials along with law enforcement leaders from across Connecticut posted tributes Friday to Trooper First Class Aaron Pelletier, a small band of police in Hartford recalled memories of when he served on a regional task force targeting gangs and violent criminals.

Members of the West Hartford Police Department salute as the late Connecticut state police TFC Aaron Pelletier is escorted from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Farmington to Della Vecchia Funeral Home in Southington on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Aaron Flaum/Hartford Courant)

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