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4 Locals Honored For Heroism

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: December 4, 2008

A Tampa police officer who rescued a woman in Old Tampa Bay and a Hillsborough County sheriff's deputy who ended a man's bloody rampage were among 15 people honored Wednesday for heroism, the governor's office said. The Governor's Medal of Heroism was awarded this year to 10 law enforcement officers and one firefighter for their actions in the line of duty. Gov. Charlie Crist attended the Tallahassee ceremony.

Officer Ryan Jurjevich received the award for his Jan. 28 rescue of a woman clinging to a piling of the Howard Frankland Bridge. Deputy Malachi McCoy was recognized for fatally shooting a man who killed three people and wounded two deputies during a rampage June 7.

Also honored were four people with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, including two brothers assigned to the Tampa Bay Regional Operations Center. Special Agent Supervisor Bob Ura and his brother, Special Agent Paul Ura, received that agency's Medal of Valor for disarming a gunman who opened fire in a Las Vegas casino in June 2007, wounding four people.

The brothers were in Las Vegas at the time to attend a wedding, officials said.

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