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Iowa Patrol Trooper Jim Smith Slain Amid Violent Standoff

'We will continue to stand in the gap of good and evil because, like Jim, that is what we are called to do,' says public safety commissioner

Iowa Patrol Trooper Jim Smith Slain Amid Violent Standoff
Sgt. Jim Smith in a file photo. Iowa State Patrol
The Associated Press
The Associated Press
4/10/2021|Updated: 4/11/2021

LIBERTY—A 27-year veteran of the Iowa State Patrol was shot and killed during a violent standoff with a man who fought back against agents in an armored personnel carrier and said he wanted to shoot other officers, authorities said Saturday.

Sgt. Jim Smith was killed Friday night in Grundy Center as he and other officers entered the home of Michael Thomas Lang, 41, who fled there after an earlier police pursuit, authorities said.

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