DC story receiving considerable attention locally, Clarence Williams, Lynh Bui, Justin Jouvenal, WaPo, this afternoon

Funeral arrangements were expected to be announced Thursday for a slain Prince George’s County police officer, as he was being remembered as a model public servant and fresh details emerged about his killer’s troubled past.

Cpl. Mujahid Ramz­ziddin, 51, was lauded as “exceptional” by the head of the Northwest Washington mosque where he had been a worshiper for about eight years.

“He’s been serving for a long time,” said Imam Talib Shareef of the Nation’s Mosque. “When you talk about someone being a public servant, that’s the kind of person that you would want. He was pleasant, but wouldn’t hesitate to do the right thing to protect people.”

He added: “We’re proud of him.”

The officer’s patrol car was draped in black bunting and balloons on Thursday morning outside police headquarters, a day after he was shot off-duty while helping a neighbor in his Brandywine neighborhood, police officials said.

Ramzziddin was killed Wednesday morning trying to aid a woman during a domestic disturbance.

Ramzziddin, a 14-year veteran of the force and former Marine, was off duty at the time. and intervened after the neighbor said she was threatened by her estranged husband as she was attempting to move out of their home, police said. The husband emerged from between two homes and shot at Ramzziddin five times with a shotgun, police said.

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