Rogers phoned the police the night after he escaped, and invited them down into, what turned out to be, an ambush near Parks Creek in West Ferris.

After wounding a couple policemen overnight, the gunman stood his ground. Early morning, Rogers faced a stand-off with Constable Lefebvre, the detective who had arrested him years before.

Roughly 100 meters apart, Rogers shot the detective with his Winchester Savage rifle from the cover of a tree.

Rogers ran off into the bush, and remained at large.

“I’m done for. Rogers got me at last,” Lefebvre said as he lay dying, “My poor children; kiss my children for me.”

A plaque honours Constable Lefebvre at the North Bay Police station; also, his name is inscribed on the glass panel monument in Ottawa and the wall of honour in Toronto.

Since the North Bay Police service was established, there have been two events that took the lives of policemen while on duty.

Constable Len Slater, who was murdered in December of 1973, loved the outdoors and was eager to return to Northern Ontario for his first five years of service.

One night an on-duty police officer radioed in that a drunken man had shot him behind a local downtown tavern.

Constable Slater rushed to the aid of his fellow police officer.

That night, in the dark parking lot, a local resident, Camille Joesph Ethier, loaded a single shot 12-gauge shotgun and opened fire on Slater.

Ethier killed Constable Slater, a husband to Marilyn, and father of three children Scott, Michelle and Melinda.

On April 20th, 1974, Camille Joseph Ethier was convicted of non-capital murder in the slaying of the constable.

The 24 year old man was sentenced life in prison.

The North Bay Police Services administrative headquarters building will honour his name, standing as a powerful and lasting tribute to an officer, killed in the line of duty.