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UPDATE: 5:39 IUPD Police Academy graduate identified as charity crash victim

The Indiana State Police Department identified the two officers killed in a crash during a charity bicycle ride Tuesday as Gary Martin, a retired Lake County Sheriff's Department chief and Lt. Gary Dudley, commander of the Indiana State Police Recruit Academy and a graduate of the IU Police Department Police Academy.\nDudley graduated from the academy in the 1970s, said IUPD Captain Jerry Minger.\nDudley organized the ride, which benefited the charity Concerns of Police Survivors. The group exists to help provide money to families of officers killed in the line of duty. IUPD Lt. Greg Butler, who knew Dudley and his wife, Carolyn, said Dudley helped plan the ride and always presented the checks to the families.\nThe ride, which was scheduled to last 1,100 miles and 13 days, has been stopped until after the funerals, Butler said. Although they may not complete the entire course anymore because of the accident, they plan to still ride into Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, which is where the ride was scheduled to end. Butler said they plan to do this at a date that is yet to be determined because Carolyn Dudley requested they finish.\n"We're going to finish this ride," Butler said. "We're just not going to complete the entire route"

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