FINAL ACT OF SERVICE: WV Police Officer Shot in Face Dies, Donates Organs

Charleston, WV police Officer Cassie Johnson, 28, was removed from life support Wednesday after it was determined she was not expected to recover from her wounds. Her organs will be donated, officials said.

"To say we are heartbroken is an understatement," Mayor Amy Shuler Goodwin said Thursday, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. "We are at a loss because we have lost one of our sisters in blue."

Johnson was responding to a traffic complaint on Garrison Avenue around 3 p.m. Tuesday when a suspect identified as 38-year-old Joshua Phillips allegedly shot her in the face, Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford said at a news conference Wednesday evening.

She was hospitalized in critical condition and underwent surgery until it was determined her body could not long sustain life by itself and she would be taken off life support.

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