Boston Police Officer Dennis Simmonds has been posthumously promoted to sergeant, Boston Police say.
The promotion comes four years after his death, and five years after he suffered a head injury during a shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in Watertown after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
.@bostonpolice confirm Officer Dennis Simmonds has been posthumously promoted to sergeant. Simmonds received a head injury when one of the Tsarnaev brothers tossed an explosive device toward him. He died a year later. pic.twitter.com/yq1V3Fvoxc
— Jessica Reyes (@jessicamreyes) June 14, 2018
Simmonds was first appointed to the Boston Police Department in 2008, and received the Schroeder Brothers Memorial Award in 2014 for his actions in the shootout.
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His name was added to the National Law Enforcement Memorial in Washington, D.C. in 2015.
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