Officer added to state memorial

The name of a police officer who suffered a fatal brain aneurysm a year after being wounded during a confrontation with the Boston Marathon bombers was added Friday to a memorial honoring Massachusetts law enforcement officers.

Dennis Simmonds, a Boston patrolman, was among the officers who engaged Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in a shootout in Watertown on April 19, 2013, days after two bombs exploded at the marathon.

Simmonds was struck by shrapnel from an explosive device the suspects detonated.

On April 10, 2014, Simmonds, 28, collapsed while working out at the Boston Police Academy gym and died at a hospital.