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Const. John Davidson, the Abbotsford police officer who was shot dead on Monday, is being remembered as a hero who was a courteous, kind and dedicated officer and made an impression on everyone he encountered.

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The man accused of shooting Davidson, 65-year-old Oscar Ferdinand Arfmann, was charged with first-degree murder on Tuesday.

The former Alberta man was scheduled to appear in Abbotsford Provincial Court Tuesday afternoon.

Cpl. Frank Jang, spokesman for the Intergrated Homicide Investigation Team, said police hope friends and associates — if they haven’t already spoken with police — will come forward.

“We need to know more about Mr. Arfmann,” he said at a Tuesday afternoon media conference.

Linda Arfmann, his sister-in-law, told Postmedia that the family learned of Oscar Arfmann’s arrest through media coverage on Tuesday morning.

“We are preparing a family statement which we will release,” she said from her Edmonton home.