Another officer joins list of those killed on duty

The officer is the first city police officer to die in the line of duty since 1992.
YOUNGSTOWN -- The memorial page of the Youngstown Fraternal Order of Police lists the names of 11 city officers killed in the line of duty.
Soon it will be 12.
Officer Michael Hartzell was gunned down early today during a downtown traffic stop.
He is the first officer to die on duty since 1992 and the first to be gunned down in nearly 16 years.
Last officer killed
The last officer killed was Detective Sgt. Millard Williams, the Web site says. He died in April 14, 1992, just three weeks shy of his 50th birthday.
The 14-year YPD veteran was killed in his cruiser in a head-on collision on Oak Street near Hine Street. Both Williams and the other driver were pronounced dead at the scene and had to be cut from their cars, according to the site.
Gunned down
An officer was gunned down five years earlier. On Sept. 16, 1987, Patrolman Paul Durkin died on the North Side after stopping his cruiser to question a man carrying a car stereo and speakers on Goleta Avenue.
The man shot Durkin in the chest and lower abdomen through the open driver's side window of the cruiser.
William Dawson Jr. was convicted of the killing after his father told police his son was responsible. Dawson confessed, the Web site says. He had been arrested within 12 hours of the officer's death.
Durkin was not wearing his vest when he was killed, though he usually did wear one during his tour, the site says.