Funeral held for NYPD Detective Joseph Lemm killed in Afghanistan
Mourners attended the funeral Wednesday for an NYPD detective and U.S. serviceman killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan. Family, friends and colleagues gathered to pay their respects to Detective
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Dec 31, 2015, 4:08 AM
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Mourners attended the funeral Wednesday for an NYPD detective and U.S. serviceman killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan.
Family, friends and colleagues gathered to pay their respects to Detective Joseph Lemm at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.
The 45-year-old was killed by a suicide bomber along with five other American troops.
Lemm was a 15-year NYPD veteran who served on the Bronx warrant squad since 2014. He lived in Westchester County.
He was a technical sergeant in the U.S. Air National Guard.
Lemm leaves behind a wife and two children.
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