Birmingham Police Officer Sande Sanderson

Lest we forget...

     

 

Officer Sande Sanderson
Birmingham Police Department
Alabama
End of Watch: Thursday, January 29, 1998

 

Biographical Info
Age: 34
Tour of Duty: 9 years
Badge Number: 257

 

Incident Details
Cause of Death: Bomb
Date of Incident: Thursday, January 29, 1998
Weapon Used: Explosives; Bomb
Suspect Info: Sentenced to life

 

Officer Sanderson was killed in a bomb explosion while moonlighting as a security guard at an abortion clinic. Officer Sanderson and one of the clinic's nurses were opening the clinic when the bomb detonated. The nurse was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. Officer Sanderson is the first person to ever be killed in an abortion clinic bombing.

The suspect had evaded searches involving several hundred state and federal officers by hiding the in a national forest in North Carolina since the incident. The suspect was apprehended on May 31, 2003, when a police officer in Murphy, North Carolina, spotted him digging through trash can and arrested him. On April 13, 2005, the suspect pled guilty to the bombing in which Officer Sanderson was killed. He was sentenced to four life sentences.

Officer Sanderson is survived by his wife and one child.

 

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