Honoring slain trooper //
Angela Courteau and her daughters, Elara, 5, and Nina, 1, place flowers on the car of slain Virginia State Police Trooper Chad P. Dermyer last Friday at State Police headquarters in Chesterfield County. People from Metro Richmond and around the state and nation paid their respects to the 37-year-old Michigan native who was fatally shot during a counterterrorism training exercise last Thursday at the Richmond Greyhound bus station. Authorities said other troopers inside the bus station then shot and killed the gunman, James Brown III of Aurora, Ill. Two women were wounded, including an athlete from the University of Binghamton in New York who was headed to a track and field event in Williamsburg. They were hospitalized with injuries described as not life threatening. Gov. Terry McAuliffe and police officers from 20 states were among the thousands of mourners at Trooper Dermyer’s funeral Tuesday in Hampton. He was buried in Gloucester County.
