Officer Jay Ducharme, who began serving in September 2004 as a security officer in the Department of Public Safety, died suddenly Wednesday morning.
Ducharme was undergoing training at the Rhode Island Municipal Police Academy to become a campus police officer at Brown, according to an e-mail sent to the University community Thursday afternoon by DPS Chief of Police Mark Porter and Vice President of Administration Walter Hunter.
"Officer Ducharme's death is a tragic loss to our Department of Public Safety, and we will always remain grateful for his service to our campus community. ... Our thoughts are with (his) family and friends during this extraordinarily difficult time," Porter and Hunter wrote in the e-mail.
No further details on Ducharme's death or plans for a memorial service were available as of press time. Support services are available to members of DPS through the Office of Student Life, the Office of the University Chaplain and Psychological Services.
