Crime & Safety
Jennifer Sebena to Get Another Look from Memorial Group
The National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund will meet April 3 to consider adding the slain Wauwatosa officer to a wall honoring officers killed in the line of duty.
The organization in charge of a national memorial to fallen officers will reconsider its decision to exclude slain Wauwatosa Police Officer Jennifer Sebena next week, according to an advocacy group.
A message on the Facebook page of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association says that the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund will meet April 3 to discuss the matter. Today’s TMJ4 first reported the news Monday.
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The organization declined to include Sebena because she was a victim of domestic violence; the result was a significant outcry from Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, the WPPA and and others.
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Sebena was shot and killed while on duty Christmas Eve 2012. Her husband, Benjamin Sebena, has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the slaying. He has pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
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