When it came time to unveil a new street sign honoring a Philadelphia Police Officer killed in the line of duty nearly 30 years ago, things didn't go as planned.

There was a slight snag; the banner over the sign got stuck, which the family of fallen Officer Lauretha Vaird said would have made her smile.

After a few tries, an officer unveiled the plaque, which is fixed high above Rising Sun and Wyoming in the city's Feltonville neighborhood.

Officer Vaird, a single mother of two, responded to a bank robbery on Jan. 2, 1996. She was shot and killed. She is the first female Philadelphia police officer to be killed in the line of duty .

Her family, including son, Michael Caesar, were here outside the very bank where she was killed for the unveiling.

"She ran into that bank and, in

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