For 17 years, Sue Eddington watched her husband walk out the doorto serve and protect the citizens of Roselle. It never occurred toher that he would be the one that needed protection.
Then last Monday, watching the evening news, she saw pictures ofthe bullet-riddled windshield of his unmarked patrol car. RichardEddington, the Roselle police chief, had been grazed in the face whena fleeing bank robbery suspect shot at his vehicle.
"I was shocked," she said. "I just didn't think he could be atarget."
Monday's shoot-out in Roselle serves as a vivid reminder thatpolice posts in the suburbs are no longer the low-stress, danger-freejobs they once were touted …
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