CANFIELD — The family of a fallen police officer in Lorain, Ohio will have their home's mortgage paid off by nonprofit group Tunnels to Towers, according to Back the Blue Ohio organizer Christine Oliver.

“We wanted to do something for this family, because you can't bring back your loved ones, but maybe we can help do things to lessen their burden,” Oliver said at a rally on the Canfield Village Green Saturday afternoon. Oliver said Back the Blue Ohio had reached out to the foundation to apply for the gift.

Officer Philip Wagner was killed in July when a suspect opened fire on him and another officer while they were eating lunch in their police cars. He left behind a wife and three children, one of them less than a year old.

“He was a great officer, one of my members in the Fraternal O

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