Murdered Officer Remembered

LONGVIEW — City officials, friends and family members shuffled into Mobberly Baptist Church on Thursday afternoon to honor Longview police officer Jamie “Ellyn” Goodan. Goodan, 38, of Longview was found in her Towne Oaks apartment about 8:30 a.m. Saturday, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Officers were dispatched to the residence by the victim’s husband. Ellyn Goodan’s day shift supervisor, Sgt. Richard Spruiell, responded to the call. When he arrived at the apartment, Goodan’s husband, 39-year-old Harry Goodan, invited crews into the residence and told them he killed his wife. Goodan, a 911 communications coordinator with the police department, has been charged with murder.