The police officer who was on call with Cold Spring officer Thomas Decker when he was killed in November has resigned.
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Greg Reiter's actions after the shooting of officer Thomas Decker had come under scrutiny. He did not say why he quit.
January 31, 2013 at 1:12PM
Greg Reiter, 39, of St. Joseph, a licensed police officer who was working part time for the Cold Spring department, submitted a brief resignation letter to the Stearns County city two weeks ago, said city administrator Paul Hetland. "He didn't give a reason," Hetland said.
Reiter's actions on the night of the shooting came under scrutiny in the weeks after Decker's death as investigators continued to search for the gun and a suspect who could be charged.
Moments after the Nov. 29 shooting behind Winners Bar, Reiter put his car into reverse and backed away from the gun-wielding shooter. Reiter lost visual contact and couldn't give investigators many details.
Within hours, Ryan Larson, a part-time Winners bartender, was arrested in his apartment above the bar but released days later without charges.
Authorities have since found the shotgun that killed Decker, and a man who had come under repeated questioning for the shooting killed himself. Eric J. Thomes, 31, was found hanged in a metal outbuilding near his rural Cold Spring home after a standoff with police.
The shotgun that killed Decker was found on property to which Thomes had access. But BCA officials stopped short of declaring Thomes the person who killed Decker.
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