Valley Brook police officer recounts fight for life

 
BY ANN KELLEY akelley@opubco.com
Published: December 30, 2011

VALLEY BROOK — Patrolman Darren Johnson said he employed almost every tactic he knew to subdue his crazed, bloodied attacker before the man shoved the nose of a gun to the officer's head.

Johnson , a Valley Brook police officer, unloaded an entire canister of pepper spray in the man's face, but it didn't slow him down. Then Johnson used his police baton, but the man reacted as if he was wielding a Styrofoam ...


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