Friday night was time for the city to give back to one of its finest detectives. 

Several hundred turned out for a fundraiser at Bishop Chatard High School to help Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department homicide Detective Cameron Brosseau, who recently was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Friends, colleagues and area luminaries joined the event, but the person who likely had the strongest message was a stranger to Brosseau. 

Mike Corcoran, 71, Indianapolis, is a 71/2-year pancreatic cancer survivor. He is among the fewer than 5 percent who survive five years or longer, and he no longer has a trace of the cancer in his body. He came to meet Brosseau and tell him to not give up. 

"He's a football player," Corcoran said. "He never went into a game thinking he was going to get beaten, did he?" 

Link to complete story by Melanie Hayes in Indianapolis Star