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  • 31
    Dec
    2012
    6:44pm, EST

    Mourners lay to rest firefighter ambushed by gunman

    Carlo Allegri / Reuters

    The casket of slain firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka is brought out of St. Stanislaus Church following his funeral service in Rochester, N.Y., on Dec. 31. Kaczowka was killed along with firefighter Michael Chiapperini while responding to a fire in Webster, New York on Dec. 24, where William Spengler shot at first responders. Two other firefighters were injured while seven house burned.

    Jamie Germano / Democrat and Chronicle Pool via AP

    West Webster firefighters walk in procession with the casket of fellow firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka during his funeral at St. Stanislaus Church in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday.

    Jamie Germano / Democrat and Chronicle Pool via AP

    Janina and Marian Kaczowka, right, leave the church at the end of a funeral for their son, West Webster firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka, at St. Stanislaus Church in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday.

    Carlo Allegri / Reuters

    Kimberly Ciapperini attends the funeral of slain firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka at St. Stanislaus Church after his funeral service in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday. Kimberly is the widow of Michael Ciapperini, who was laid to rest yesterday.

    West Webster firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka, 19, was laid to rest on Monday, after he and fellow firefighter Michael Chiapperini were ambushed and killed while responding to a fire on Dec. 24, according to the Democrat and Chronicle. Two other firefighters were also injured. Chiapperini's funeral was held on Sunday, the Associated Press reports.

    Jamie Germano / Democrat and Chronicle Pool via AP

    A West Webster firefighter carries a program during the funeral for fellow West Webster firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka at St. Stanislaus Church in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday.

    Carlo Allegri / Reuters

    Firefighters wait for the casket of slain firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka to be brought outside of St. Stanislaus Church following his funeral service in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday.

    Carlo Allegri / Reuters

    A sign at the Holy Sepulchre Cemetery is seen during the burial of slain firefighter Tomasz Kaczowka following his funeral service in Rochester, N.Y., on Monday.

     

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    The killer murdered his own grandmother with a hammer. He should have been given the death penalty for that. Had that happened this tragedy would never have happened.

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