PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Efforts to rename a Northeast Philadelphia post office in honor of slain Temple University Police Sergeant Christopher Fitzgerald are moving forward.
The 31-year-old husband and father was shot and killed while responding to a robbery nearly a year ago.
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A congressional committee passed a bill to rename the post office on Bustleton Avenue, south of Red Lion Road, in his honor.
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Congressman Brendan Boyle calls the effort "a small but important symbol of our eternal thanks."
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