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Saturday, December 22, 2012

A Final Salute for a Fallen Officer

Clayton Police rookie Sean Callahan was buried in Kennesaw.

Family members and friends of Officer Sean Callahan peered over his open casket as they took their last glance of him. Some gently touched his chest, hair and face, and others kissed his forehead before a Clayton County Police honor guard closed the casket and draped an American flag over it. The former swimmer at Cobb's Lassiter High School was remembered at his funeral Friday as a loving son and brother, a generous friend and "a noble officer." Callahan, 24, was shot twice in the head on Monday responding to a domestic dispute and died early Tuesday morning. He was first Clayton officer ever killed in the line of duty, and dozens of his colleagues, along with more than a hundred law enforcement officers from around Georgia, turned out to…

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