Sgt. Eric Mueller, the OPP officer shot and killed in eastern Ontario on Thursday, was seriously injured in the line of duty years ago while trying to make an arrest.
Mueller, 42, died on Thursday in what OPP commissioner Thomas Carrique called an "ambush” in Bourget, Ont. He and two other officers were shot while responding to a disturbance call at a home."He is described by his colleagues as a coach, a mentor, someone that everybody looked up to, the glue that held his shift together, and the best leader that many people ever had the privilege of working for," Carrique said on Thursday.
On Thursday, Mueller and two other officers responded to a disturbance call at a home on Laval Street in Bourget, a small community east of Ottawa. Alain Bellefeuille, 39, was arrested and has been charged with one count of first-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder.In 2008, just two years after he became a provincial constable, Mueller was seriously injured during an attempted arrest, according to aMueller and two other officers stopped the driver of a tractor-trailer. Mueller exited his cruiser and approached the accused's truck.
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