Detroit Police Department, Michigan
End of Watch Sunday, October 3, 1993
Add to My HeroesNorman E. Spruiel
Officer Norman Spruiel succumbed to gunshot wounds sustained three weeks earlier while working an undercover murder case.
He was conducting surveillance with his partner while attempting to locate two suspects who murdered and then mutilated two young men. As the officers were finishing up their surveillance for the night they drove a few blocks away to compare notes at Prairie Street south of Lyndon in a dead end.
Officer Spruiel was standing outside his unmarked patrol car when he was shot twice in the back by a man unrelated to the murder investigation. The subject claimed he did not know the two were police officers and thought they were preparing to rob his brother's body shop.
The suspect was convicted of Officer Spruiel's murder and sentenced to 85 years in prison.
Officer Spruiel had served with the Detroit Police Department for 15 years. He is survived by his wife and three children.
Bio
- Age 43
- Tour 15 years
- Badge Not available
Incident Details
- Cause Gunfire
- Incident Date Monday, September 13, 1993
- Weapon Rifle
- Offender Sentenced to 85 years
Most Recent Reflection
View all 21 ReflectionsI love you Daddy and I miss you but i know you would be proud
I just want to Thank you for being my daddy for your patience and teaching how to pray , teaching me to think , pay attention, so many things I use Today in this World because of you , Carl musses you so much he took this so hard and still today he will cry , The world lost a Real Great Man, father, friend, teacher.
Daughter of Officer Norman E Spruiel
Thank , you
November 21, 2022
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