[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 26 (Friday, February 12, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H804]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       MARYLAND SHERIFF DEPUTIES: PATRICK DAILEY AND MARK LOGSDON

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, five police officers in the United 
States this week have been gunned down: one in North Dakota, one in 
Georgia, one in Colorado, and two in Maryland. I am going to talk about 
the two in Maryland.
  On February 10, on a bitter winter day, two sheriff's deputies were 
called to a disturbance at a shopping center in Abingdon, Maryland. As 
the deputies were attempting to speak with a disruptive individual, he 
held a gun to 52-year-old Deputy Patrick Dailey's head and fired, 
killing him.
  Deputy Mark Logsdon pursued the assassin, but Logsdon was also killed 
by the criminal's gunfire during this chase. Later, the outlaw was shot 
and killed.
  Dailey was a life member of the Joppa-Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company 
and spent 30 years defending the public as a sheriff's deputy. He was a 
hero to his two now fatherless children.
  Forty-three-year-old Deputy Mark Logsdon was a 16-year veteran of the 
force, leaving behind three children and a wife.
  Both men had been honored for valor during their careers of 
protecting and serving the community. Patrick and Mark's lives were 
coldly and maliciously stolen, ripped away from this world and their 
families.
  These men behind the badge are a special breed, a rare breed. They 
work selflessly, maintaining and restoring order in our neighborhoods. 
They are the best of our Nation. They protect us from evil, cold, 
calculated criminals who wish to do harm to the rest of us.
  Mr. Speaker, we mourn the passing of these two lawmen who are cut 
above the rest of us.
  And that is just the way it is.

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