A standing room-only crowd of family, neighbors and police officers poured into St. Anselm's Church in Parkwood Manor tonight for a community Mass in Police Officer John Pawlowski's memory.
The officer, slain Friday night after responding to an attempted robbery in the Olney section, was mourned in the same church where he prayed and attended grade school.
In remembering the seventh city officer killed since May 2006, the Rev. Thomas J. Dunleavy called on the more than 1,000 people gathered to tap into Pawlowski's God-given ability "to heal, and to restore, and to make all things well."
Gordon Dunlop Jr., 45, a neighbor, looked around at the filled church.
"This is such a tight-knit community," he said. "This church ain't big enough. The basilica ain't big enough."
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