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Nov 25, 2022 · Collegeville, Minn. November 25, 2022 9:42 AM. Law enforcement officers stand at attention during the funeral for Cold Spring-Richmond Police Officer Tom Decker, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012...
Dec 5, 2012 · The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says Ryan Larson remains a suspect in the case of a fallen Cold Spring police officer. On Tuesday, he was released from custody because of a lack...
Aug 14, 2023 · A crowd of around 80 people gathered to pay their respects to Decker's family and the family of other fallen officers. Police Chief Jason Blum spoke at Sunday's ceremony. "Tommy was always one ...
- Tom Decker as A Child
- Officer Tom Decker
- The Last Call
- The Investigation
- Contact with Thomes
- The Funeral
- The Memorial
- Dreams
- Conclusion
Tommy Decker was raised on the Decker Dairy Farm just outside Cold Spring, Minnesota. According to his mother, Rosella Decker, he was called to law enforcement when as a small child he became separated from his older sister inside the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota. While afraid and hopelessly lost, a kind man wearing a badge and a ...
Rosella Decker, who says she finds “great comfort” in talking about Tom, now laughed as she recalled, “When he was first sworn in at 20, Tom was too young to buy his own gun, so we had to buy it for him.” Rosella added that Tom worked for departments in Isle, Watkins and Kimble, before he was finally hired by Cold Spring, his hometown. She said, “H...
During the evening shift of November 29, 2012, Tom received a “check welfare” call from a concerned party afraid that a young man who lived in an apartment above Winner’s Sports Bar and Grill in Cold Spring might harm himself. When Officer Decker checked he discovered the man was nowhere around. Tom returned to patrol but was determined to try agai...
Investigators initially focused on the despondent man as a person of interest but cleared him in short order. Gradually they shifted their focus to a 31-year-old man named Eric Thomes. Thomes had been fired the day that Officer Decker was ambushed and people who knew his frame of mind after the firing suspected him of killing Officer Decker.
On January 2, 2013, investigators approached Thomes to make contact with him as he walked up the driveway of his girlfriend’s home. Thomes turned and spotted the investigators and instinctively ran into a pole garage on the property. He refused to come out. When his girlfriend arrived home hours later, the agents entered the pole garage and discove...
Thousands of officers and citizens attended Officer Decker’s funeral. The residents of the Greater Cold Spring area lined the streets of the procession to pay their respects. Officer Decker was laid to rest in a quiet Country Cemetery in St. Nicholas, Minnesota. He left behind a grieving wife and four young children.
Cold Spring, Minnesota is a city of 4,500, and home to people whose lawns are neatly manicured and dotted with “We Support Our Police” signs. Chief Blum says his department feels that support and appreciates it greatly. Now 10 years later, the citizens of Cold Spring wish to erect a substantial police memorial to be dedicated on the tenth anniversa...
Rosella Decker shared a dream that she had after her son’s death. She said in the dream Tom was at the kitchen table on the family farm with two other officers at his side. All three were in uniform and they were talking together. Their message was clear and meant for other officers still serving. Tom’s heavenly message was, “We got your back!” I h...
The citizens of Cold Spring represent the majority of people around the country who support their local police. Never forget how many there are. Just like Tom and his heavenly partners, they’ve got your back!
Nov 25, 2022 · COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. — It’s been 10 years since an ambush shooting claimed the life of Cold Spring Police Officer Tom Decker and shook this small central Minnesota community to its core. On...
Aug 10, 2023 · August 10, 2023 — 10:22am. Anthony Souffle, Star Tribune. Rosella Decker, the mother of Tommy Decker, who was shot to death while working as a Cold Spring police officer in November 2012,...
Sep 10, 2022 · St. Cloud 600205611. A decade later, Cold Spring still grapples with the slaying of officer Thomas Decker. Meanwhile, a Cold Spring transplant is raising money for a bronze memorial to...