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Updated: December 4, 2012 - 7:22 PM

Cold Spring police officer Tom Decker was fatally shot late Thursday when he was trying to do a routine welfare check on a suicidal man at an apartment near a Main Street bar, Stearns County authorities said Friday morning.

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