Officer fatally shot in Baltimore identified

Associated Press//January 10, 2011//

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Baltimore police have identified an officer who was fatally shot outside a nightclub.

A spokesman says 33-year-old William Torbit Jr., an eight-year veteran, was fatally shot outside a nightclub early Sunday as a fight spilled onto a parking lot.

A civilian was also killed in the melee, and four others, including another police officer, were hurt.

Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a statement Monday that Torbit was a narcotics officer in the Central District. She said the police department is grieving a painful loss.

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