Mourners line streets to honor slain officer

Gavin, Gannon and Gracelyn Goughnour hold signs in support of the police and fallen officer Sean Sluganski. They are the children of McKeesport Juvenile Crimes Det. Dan Goughnour.

By JEFF STITT

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Masses of people waving American flags and holding “We Support Our Police” signs lined the streets of McKeesport Tuesday as the funeral procession for fallen city police Officer Sean Sluganski made a loop through town. The procession featured hundreds of first responder vehicles from around Pennsylvania and surrounding states as it made its way from a Catholic funeral Mass in Baldwin to Jefferson Memorial Cemetery in Pleasant Hills.

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