Lewiston police hold memorial run for slain officer

: Runners and their support crew, plus family and friends of David Payne gather at Payne’s grave at Gracelawn Memorial Park in Auburn on Tuesday after the fourth annual David Payne Memorial Run. The group of 16 runners started at the memorial on River Road in Lewiston where Payne, a police officer, was killed in the line of duty on July 23, 1988. The 7-mile run was followed by the Paul Simard Memorial Breakfast at the Lewiston police station. Simard, also a police officer, was killed in the line of duty July 7, 1958. Lewiston police officer Jason Johnson, left, who started the run and breakfast, hopes to make the run/breakfast a large community event in the upcoming years.

: Members of the Lewiston Police Department are joined by the Capitol police chief from Augusta and members of the E-911 team on the fourth annual David Payne Memorial Run on Lincoln Street in Lewiston on Tuesday. Payne was a Lewiston police officer killed in the line of duty on July 23, 1988. The 16 runners started on River Road in Lewiston where Payne was killed and ended 7 miles later at Gracelawn Memorial Park in Auburn, at Payne’s grave site. In the support crew were two retired Lewiston police officers who worked with Payne.

: Lewiston police Youth Detective Danielle Murphy bends down to touch the grave of David Payne at Gracelawn Memorial Park in Auburn after completing the fourth annual David Payne Memorial Run on Tuesday.

: An employee of United Ambulance approaches a memorial to Lewiston police officer David Payne at the place where Payne was killed in the line of duty on July 23, 1988, off River Road in Lewiston. Tuesday was the 25th anniversary of his death.