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Fallen US Marshal is memorialized by Attorney General Garland, family and others

Source: ASSOCIATED PRESS

When met with condolences about the death of her husband — Thomas Weeks, a Deputy U.S. Marshal killed in Charlotte last week — Kelly Weeks asked instead how she could help the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said at a Monday memorial for the officer.

In her eulogy, Weeks' wife said that in the wake of her husband's death she had no other options but to seek change.

“My husband’s tragedy cannot be just another death," Kelly Weeks said during the memorial. "It has to be for something bigger.”

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