We arrived at the Children’s Hospital Emergency Room at the same time.
He and his partner parked and I pulled up to their left and did the same.
I got out of my car and watched as the officer hurried from his seat and opened the back, driver’s side door.
When the officer grabbed the boy from the back seat of his police Tahoe, I knew almost instantly.
There was a split second though, before instantly I guess, where I didn’t know. For that split second, the officer looked like any dad grabbing his sleeping boy from the car and putting the boy’s head on his shoulder to carry him inside to sleep comfortably in his own bed.
For that split second, it was a sweet moment.
The officer, an around fifty year old white guy, clutched the little boy over his left shoulder gently, but with a clear purpose. The boy was small, a black child with his hair in corn rows and dressed as a typical five or six-year-old dresses.
He reminded me of my own six-year-old son.
The sudden, pained look on the officer’s face and the fact that the boy wasn’t crying or yelling or doing anything other than appearing to be asleep made the split second fantasy fade away fast.
We hurried into the emergency room where we were met by the trauma team and hospital staff. I’m always in awe at how these emergency room doctors and nurses and staff are so able to get to working on a patient so fast.
There was some sliver of hope that the boy would make it, at least that’s what we all wanted to believe.
The truth, and I think we all knew it, was that this boy would never fall asleep in his own bed again. When the officer laid the boy down on the gurney and stood back upright, any wind that may have been in my sails quickly faded to nothing.
His shirt said it all.
Where the boy’s little heart had laid so close to the officer’s own heart, was a mess that told us things would not end well.
The three of us officers, with nearly fifty years of city police experience under our collective belts, waited not so stoically outside of trauma room two as the doctors and nurses busted their tails to save this little guy.
We paced and exchanged awkward smiles with each other and the nurses and staff who were passing by. There were several times when one or all of us was close to tears, but we held it together.
It was hard for the officer, because he did the best he could and it wasn’t going to be enough. It was hard for me, because I have a son about that age at home and couldn’t imagine anything like this happening to him.
It was awkward because we were all hoping, but we also knew that it was going to take a miracle for that boy to live.
He was not granted that miracle.
Just like that, at a couple of minutes after 8pm, a five-year old boy was gone forever.
The sheet of paper, which I’ve seen way to many times, verified it. It’s the one with a line printed on it. When it’s completely straight, you’ve died. You’ve straight-lined, as they say.
I was done with being in the hospital. I wanted to leave.
To go back to my car, I had to walk past the same group of people who were in the waiting room when we walked past them earlier with the dying boy. Three little boys grabbed at me and asked me if that boy we carried in earlier was dead.
“Did he die, officer? Was that boy dead?” They asked me.
I got no help from their mom, as she was tending to a clearly sick kid of her own.
“Boys, he’s fine. He’s a strong boy, just like you guys.”
I felt bad lying, but it seemed easier than having to explain death to three strange kids all under ten years old.
I went to my car and grabbed a bunch of Dum-Dums from the bag I carry around. Mom was cool with me giving them suckers, and they left me alone about the dead boy they still thought was alive.
I couldn’t tell them that the boy who was about their same age had straight-lined.
Five-year olds shouldn’t straight line.
Why did this one?
Because of gun violence in the city.
The weather was nice so the people were out.
Some people were out with their guns.
Why did this boy have to die?
Was it disrespect?
Drugs?
A woman?
Money?
All stupid reasons to fire a gun anywhere near another human being, let alone children, but here we are again, with another child lost to violence.
We tried to save this boy.
The officer showed up and there was a hostile crowd of people, most of whom had nothing to do with the shooting, and most not even sure what they should be angry at. The were just angry because anger is easy. Patience is hard. Kindness in the face of adversity is hard. Understanding is hard.
Some chose to be angry at the police while others were taking video on their phone. Meanwhile, nobody was helping a child as he lay dying on the sidewalk from a bullet that had torn through his little body.
The officer fought through the angry crowd and put a dying boy he didn’t know in his car.
Did he have to do that?
No.
EMS was coming, but they were too far away. It was too risky to wait for them, so we raced that little guy to the hospital in record time. We had all sorts of cars shutting down the route to the hospital, just like we would were a fellow cop shot and in need of medical care. That’s about the highest honor we can give a person, and this boy deserved it.
Still, it didn’t matter on this night.
I truly believe that when it’s your time, it’s your time.
Five years shouldn’t be anyone’s time, but that’s not my call.
It’s queer, but I left hospital and went back in service to handle more calls. I had to handle some subsequent calls with a little dead boy freshly on my mind.
That’s the thing with policing. It never ends. You have to carry on, so I pretended to care about a car accident and a stolen bike when I just wanted to shout in their faces, “AT LEAST YOU DIDN’T DIE AT FIVE YEARS OLD FROM A BULLET THROUGH YOUR CHEST!!! I HAVE NO INTEREST IN YOUR BULLSHIT PROBLEMS RIGHT NOW!”
But that’s not professional.
I’m wrapping this up having finished a six pack of Bud Light Lime and I just kissed all three of my own sleeping kids as well as my wife. I also laid on the ground and wrestled my dogs at 2 am, even though one of them is dying and has no interest in playing, and I have to work in the morning.
I’m still thinking about a boy I never met alive, and hoping he’s in a better place.
I’m looking at my own six year old’s homework folder and wondering if this dead boy has a homework folder in a backpack never to be turned in again. Will his mom see it when she gets home and cry? Did he have a lunch packed for the next day that will still be in the fridge this weekend to remind his family of a lunch that was never taken to school?
Did he go to kindergarten?
Will somebody have to explain to his classmates that they’ll never see this little guy alive again and why?
This is all too sad and it needs to stop.
Someone please figure out how.
don of all trades 
I read it all to then end and then again some. The boy deserved it and it’s the least we can give him. I wish I could give him his life, but now all I can give him is some thoughts of mine and some of my time. He deserves that much. He deserves the world. I’d like it, if I knew his name. Just a boy. Barely walking and talking, barely starting to live. Why him?
his name is marcus johnson thank for the concern
RIP Marcus..gone way way too soon
Thank you for taking the time to share such thoughts and feelings of a horrific situation. Thank God for you and the other fine officers, that put your heart and your own life at risk, for the community you serve and protect. Prayers go out for this young boy who gave his life for some one else’s jollies. I don!t get it. I never will. Prayers go out for all of his loved ones and friends who will never experience another day with him, his beautiful smile and his enthusiasm for life. God bless you and your fellow officers, who look out for all of us every single day. Beautifully stated.
I would bet everything I owned that the shooter had a record, complete with some felonies mixed in. You want this to stop? Do away with the difference between murder in the 1st degree and murder in the 2nd degree. Then, if found guilty by a jury of their peers the accussed is executed no later than one week after the trial. We’ll see how tough those dope-heads and gang-bangers are when they KNOW, they pull that trigger, use that knife or swing that club, they’re going to pay with THEIR life and NOT 15 years at their social club, known as a prison. Furthermore, all other felons will do every single second of their sentence. No such thing as parole. Prisons? They become hard-labor camps with no commissaries or TVs.
You are very right on!!!
Well stated!
You’re prejudice
Explain please.
Explain please. Where’s the prejudicial remarks?
Didn’t want to post anonymously
And you Anon are a fool.
No, not prejudice: just tired of the waste of life. Children should be allowed to have the innocence of youth to grow, to learn and love & enjoy life. As the saying goes, “Life is to short” so enjoy it while you can. For those of you who know how to pray, say a prayer for all people that they will be enlighten and find a solution on how to make this world a better place. Thank you officers for caring enough to take that little boy to the hospital, unfortunately it was his time to go.
You’re stupid
I agree with you.From five to twelve percent of them shouldn’t be cops,but those are in the minority.That gives them 82 to 95 percentage of good cops out there.I’ll take those odds any day.The lethal injection just isn’t a deterrent anymore.They need to bring back the electric chair,hangings and firing squads.Maybe then they’ll think twice before committing a horrible crime.
Amen!!
Agreed. However the liberals won’t allow it. They have demanded that we cuddle these people because they had a poor childhood or some other nonsense and now we have people running the streets, killing without remorse all because the people we elect to office are worried about being politically correct. We need to go back to what I right and what is wrong. Hold everyone accountable for their regardless of the color of their skin.
This liberal is all for the death penalty. If 2 or more witnesses id the perp or dna evidence is conclusive, put them to death. A mad dog cannot be cured, they must be disposed of for safety’s sake.
Liberal want them out on the streets? WTH do you get this information?
I’m liberal. I’d like marijuana de-criminalized so we don’t have our jails full of non violent types making violent offenders serve shorter sentences. The reason everyone gets out of jail much earlier than their sentences would indicate is overcrowding, not liberal agenda.
Liberal my royal American. Check your facts. And the death of a beautiful child has nothing to do with politics. It is about a bunch of thugs that don’t believe in the law.
And what about the people the judge and atty’s find guilty that are actually innocent, and don’t say that they are never innocent, because some are, the same thing happened to me, i done some remodeling work for a woman and she paid me with a check, i endorsed the check just like anyone that gets paid would, i was arrested 3 days later for felony forgery and uttering a forged instrument, I asked my court appointed attorney to take it before a jury and i wanted to plead not guilty, he told me i was guilty and he was pleading me guilty, the judge would not let me fire him and change attorneys, the District atty and my lawyer even said they knew i didn’t steal the check and forge it, but i got sent to prison for 8 months and all my rights take anyways, no way to protect my kids and my family legally, Our justice system sucks and so does the minority of the police and lawyers, all they care about are making a case that sticks, and sending someone to prison to collect money, Our ex Sheriff Gerald Hege was the most corrupt cop ever, but he would help the elderly and kids but railroad everyone else, I know some cops have a heart and they have a lot to deal with, but it’s better to not solve a case or lose a suspect, than to just put it off on a innocent person just to make a case, I agree with the murder charge, to hell with 2nd degree, they need to execute after found guilty, but with no parole, commisary or anything like that, nothing will be in the prison to keep some of the inmates from hurting others and causing havoc
JPM, I’m sorry that this happened to you. I hope you can someday get your record expunged. Sometimes the system doesn’t work, and it didn’t in your case.
The US has the best justice system money cab buy, JPM! Sorry for what happened to you.
Agree 100%!
Agree 100%
The issue with that is far too many people are wrongfully convicted of murders. Look at all the people who are being freed these days thanks to DNA testing. Look at how many have been cleared after their execution has been carried out. Your reasoning is flawed.
No, you want this to stop then you remove the right to bear arms nonsense that is in the American constitution. Because at the end of the day, the saying that guns don’t kill, people do is a pile of crap; guns do kill. If Americans weren’t able to have a gun then shootings wouldn’t happen.
Simple as.
Seriously? Do you honestly believe that whoever shot this kid had a legal gun? You need to wake up. Gun laws would not have stopped this.
Then you might as well surrender yourself to police state because the constitution is the only thing that is stopping this country from becoming a comunistic country with a dictator and there are to many of those of us that sacraficed to much to allow that to happen. If you dont like guns than get the hell out of the USA.
That’s the stupidest comment on this feed. Cane killed able with a rock, after that is was swords and poison. Get your facts straight dummy. Inanimate objects are inanimate objects. Do computers distribute kiddy port by themselves? No do vehicles drive and run into each other by themselves? No there are always going to be evil people in the world and Jack the ripper used a knife.
Really? Guns kill? I’ve had many gun through the years and although I leave them unsupervised at home alone, not once has one of them had the temerity to go out on its own and kill someone.
Right, make guns illegal, because that will work–after all criminals will obey that law (about as well as they obey any law), and in the meantime, it would turn us all into victims. No thank you.
Guns are outlawed in other countries, and yes, firearms killings are down but stabbings and beatings and poisonings are all up–and the overall murder rate doesn’t really change.
Ya because criminals care about laws right? NO! Obviously they dont because there are probably thousands or more felons who
own guns who sre not supposed to…but does that stop them? No again……so by your theory all law abiding citizens who own guns should have them taken away…so then only criminals who dnt care about laws have guns so its even easier for them to rape and kill and rob….god knws wat else…….Great idea! I guess people will just have to stop the bullets from the criminals illegal not registered guns with telepathic powers!
That’s funny.
And legal or not, the people that want guns will get them whether they should have them or not. If they didn’t have guns they’d find another way. 😦
my family owned guns all our lives. I learned to target shoot very young. No one has been hurt. My parents owned a grocery store. A Thug came in and shot first then demanded the money. My mom was shot for $14.00. That’s all that he got. A different time a guy with a gun robbed my dad and my dad died that night from a massive heart attack. I am pro gun because criminals will ALWAYS have guns because they are criminals. This child’s death is a senseless killing.
I agree Keith. tired of the system that gives criminals more rights and freedoms than what most of us working class people get.
Completely agree!!!
As an ED nurse who could be the nurse you hand over this child to, I FELT every word of this as I read it. And all of the emotions; the anger, the frustration, the sadness, all there for us too. Thank you so much for everything you do. Everyday you clip on that belt you are saving lives, making a difference. You can’t save everyone, but everyday our officers save *so many*. I could go on but probably shouldn’t, just came off my own wicked night shift and may get too sappy. Next time you stop by the ED for a business check, give a nurse a hug. We are in this together ♡
These experiences certainly help explain why there are so many “police-nurse” couples out there.
These shared experiences allow for a similar understanding of the compassion each possesses.
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My EMT cousin shared this on Facebook. I read it an cried. 5 years old.
No one was paying attention to him as he laid on the ground. Instead, they were causing a scene about what? Who knows. This boy is dead and I doubt any one of those people cared except for the three officers in this story.
I read through some of the other posts on his blog – some have words I can’t even say in my head – but you sir – are a good person. Thank you for risking your life for others and doing your job. My prayers will be with you today.
I totally agree. My son is in the Georgia State Patrol and is a stand-up guy. When all the wrong people carry guns, and use them like they were cap-pistols this sort of horrid activity will continue. It has to end before there are no children left. Respect needs to be taught in our homes, ours were, it’s not that difficult. Respect is where it starts, not ‘latch-key’, raise yourself children. They can’t learn without instruction. Wake up people!
My son too, is a Police Officer…I worry about him every day. He is a father of a five yr old and a 17 month old with a wonderful wife…..he leaves for work every morning hoping to come home to his family at the end of the day and hoping to not have to experience what these officers experienced on that day. The way he describes the mother having to deal with the loss…the lunch in the fridge that won’t be taken to school or the homework folder….Oh my goodness! So sad. Police Officers are human with families too! they are not the bad guys!
Okay I would like to establish a couple things…first of all the child was not laying on the ground…second of all the ppl that was on the scene was not acting an ass….how do I know these things to be fact I was there…the baby was in my arms for 15 minutes before a cop took him out of MY ARMS now this is a heartfelt piece that he wrote it’s just not all truth….thx
This is so sad and senseless. What is the answer? What is it going to take for people to respect themselves first, so that they can end this senseless need to hurt others. My heart goes out to all of the people of Ferguson. Black, white, who cares. Good and bad in all colors. God created us all. The shootings must end. Spend your time improving you’re own worth. God only cares about the good that you provide for others. It makes you feel soooo much better about life. Make it a great day……..
As an ex-cop, this story took me back many years to another black kid lying on the sidewalk with a bullet ihis back…his hands skinned up from catching the concrete as he fell…shot becaue he threw a rock at someone’s house as kids will do. Remember finding out later his street name was “Cool Breeze” The streets were empty when I got to the scene but the shades were lifting.
Remember the message scrawled on that wall in Ferguson? “SNITCHES GET STITCHES”? Perhaps it is time the black community change all that and help the police stop all the senseless killings…and get rid of all the damn guns…
Cops can wash that blood out of that blue shirt but they can’t change the social climate that prevails now just as it did fifty years ago…sadly, nothing has changed except the time and location.
I would imagine that the pos that pulled the trigger on this innocent young boy was not a legal gun owner. It was not the gun that killed little boy. There is no way to “get rid of all the damn guns” because if they outlawed then only people like the pos that pulled on this innocent young boy will have them! Disarming a nation will NOT make it safer! And criminals want gun control, it makes their job easier! Dear God please see this little man safely into your home.
By the same logic there should be no efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons…
‘Overarming’ a nation is way worse than ‘disarming’ a nation. We are awash in deadly weapons. No other nation on earth has as many as we do. Then we’re surprised by how easily these weapons are used?
And the 2nd amendment is prefaced by ‘”A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, …never was intended to have anyone and everyone armed to the teeth. Our founders put ‘a well regulated Militia (in capitals)’ in for a reason.
So, Rick Stevens, using your logic, do you believe the United States should give up its nuclear weapons before the North Koreans, Chinese, or Russians? Your “well regulated Militia” stand may have worked 200 years ago, but the genie is out of the bottle and there is no turning back. The problem isn’t the number of legally owned guns, it’s the number of guns in the possession of criminals. As soon as you figure a way to get the guns away from all the criminals we can debate the meaning of “well regulated Militia.”
First of all, thank you for what you do. So many people just don’t understand what you guys see, do, and put up with every day to keep us safe… when we can be kept safe. Like you I don’t understand the senselessness of the gun problem in our country. I too have a five year old… my heart is breaking for his family. And for all the other children killed daily by guns. I hope your message resonates. Blessings.
Police are not your enemies. They are your heroes. The scum bags holding your communities hostage with their gang banging, murder, drug dealing, and gun violence are your enemies. You turn out in numbers to protest against the police. But when one if your own is killed by one of your own, witnesses are silent. Police are not the problem. Police are part of the solution. Uneducated youth with no moral compass or guidance is your problem. You rally for change and come together as soon as a black is killed by a white. Spend the same amount of energy focusing on black on black violence and that will be a good start toward real change.
How true! They will then truly show that “Black Lives Matter”.
Its not about race….its about violence period.
I absolutely agree!
Thank you so much for this post. What a beautiful tribute to this boy and all the children out there whose lives are being squandered to loose gun laws.
Thank you for posting this honest look into your life & career. I read this post in the newspaper today, sobbed, and had to go to your website. No one could possibly read about this without their heart breaking. Part of you wonders, “where were the protests for the taking of this truly innocent life?” While I’m sure it’s a therapy for you to write, it’s also a therapy to read it for those of us who just live in the community feeling helpless to stop the anger, violence and insanity that takes place daily. I hope you will continue to blog, as I’ll continue to read it and pray that someone in the St Louis community steps up to make a change. Thanks for all you do, may God bless you and keep you safe as you keep strangers safe daily.
So true I’ll pray for everyone and from this message I hope people learn
We so need improved mental health care in this country. At least if we had that, there would be fewer shootings until we figured out what to do about our gun laws – if it isn’t indeed too late.
Mental health issue? I’m going to disagree with this. I’m sure it would scare you to know that a lot of these people aren’t crazy. They are violent. Big difference. Totally in control the whole time. They act out diliberatly. If someone else gets hurt, oh well. As long as the job gets done, if not there is tomorrow.
This is a heartbreaking and poignant piece. Thank you.
Maybe it’s time for the black community to not only demand respect and fairness from others but to also demand that same respect and fairness of themselves. Teach your children patience, love, respect for others. Don’t settle an argument with a gun, don’t use drugs, get an education and please take advantage of all the help our country has waiting for you to become a productive, well educated, citizen worthy of what you can become. Teach your children this and maybe you won’t have to cry over their body in the street or scream, burn, loot and blame everyone else!
Education really is the ticket out. But it starts at a young age, and schools in poor neighborhoods are awful. You need to educate parents as well, so a child’s education continues in the home. It’s an uphill slog, but there are great programs out there (at least in NYC, where I live).
Please just stop talking. I really wish people would stop judging the black communities in this nation by the few that actually make the news. I know this may be shocking to you but the majority of black communities teach their children ethics, guidelines and morals the same as any other community in this nation. Now if people judged so called white communities based on the news or the few murderous, racist, assholes that actually make the news, people would have a different outlook. But no that doesn’t happen in this nation. So my suggestion to you would be get informed. Smdh. Sheeple.
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Sometimes it’s just not about you!
This is truly sad. Heart wrenching. I pray for he & his family
this all made me cry
color should not make a bit of defference I have tears in my eyes now.
The only reason most of us know anything about this boy is due to the officer’s essay. Outside of the local community this boy’s death is a non-story because the media doesn’t care about black on black crime. Had this been a black 19 year old who had just robbed a liquor store and then shot at police prompting them to shoot him, it would be front page news across the nation and angry crowds would be marching all over the country. Where is the outrage for this innocent child? Why aren’t crowds marching with their “Black Lives Matter” signs? Approximately, 96% of black violent deaths are caused by another black person. Why does the black community only see to care if the death is due to a white person? Why does the media not care unless the death is caused by a white person? Everyone needs to understand that all black lives matter, not just those taken by a white person. It is time for the media to realize this too and begin to try to influence change so that no 5 year old child will die in the street and no one, outside of his local community, will care simply because the person who killed him was the same race.
Thank you for sharing. I….well…I just have no words for this nonsense.
I do wanna say this to the one who posted “black lives matter.” Please stop. ALL LIVES MATTER. As one of the others posted, it’s not about race. Having slogans like that really perpetuates racism IMO. We all matter. We all have a voice. We are ALL loved by God.
Blessings all…
I would like to just say thanks for doing all that you do. I could not imagine being in your shoes that day. You and your fellow officers in St Louis, Ferguson, and every other town deserve our respect. Thank you and God bless you, your family, and fellow officers.
As the moments tick away in each of our lives we all have the opportunity to prove who we are. This child rests in the arms of the Lord and is proven to be innocent. In turn, someone left on this earth now carries the blood of that child upon their hands. People do not see the ramifications of their choices now a days. So many hearts have become cold and hard. There is no in no room for love in a heart filled with fear and hate. As we choose to walk through life we are proving who we are! What does your walk say about you?
This is one of the most difficult things I have ever read. A necessary read though. I admire your courage and strength. Thank you for telling this story that you never should have had to tell.
Aside from everything you wrote here which truly breaks my heart, what you all did matters to me. I wouldn’t want to hear that you had to watch him die while he laid in the street waiting for an ambulance to get through. Thank you for sharing. I know it had to be hard to relive through retelling.
It doesn’t feel right to “Like” this post, DOAT, but I wanted you to know my heart hurts for you and everyone involved in trying to save that little boy’s life. I have no words of comfort, just tremendous respect for your dedication and professionalism.
Officer Re:
I was deeply touched by your essay, so much so that I cried my way through it. I also have written essays when I have been troubled, so I understand how emotional release can occur with such writings.
I am glad to see such a wonderful display of humanity from a man in uniform. We have all read about shootings by police officers that seem to be unjustified. You are providing us with another side of a police officer. Thank you!
I have recently retired from a job where I did some public service. I look forward to reading some more of your essays.
My prayers to the officers involved in trying to save this boy’s life and his family. Such a waste of a life. Thank you to all police officers for what you do and for putting it on the line every day.
I just wanted to say you are incredible! My husband and I stumbled across your blog and we have been sitting here well over an hour now reading. I’ve shared your blog via Facebook in hopes it reaches some” friends” who believe police officers are douche bags. I’ll continue to read your words. Thank you for all you do!
The boy was 5 or 6 and had to die wow that is sad he didnt even get to live for a long time.
Reading this from south Wales in the UK. Heartbreaking story and as a mother of a five year old, it has given me goosebumps to think of what that poor family must be going through, and the fear that child must have felt whilst dying. You must take comfort that in his last few moments he knew your warmth and compassion and was not alone.
I am shocked that no-one was trying to help him, shocked that a shooting of a child can be so matter of course that it’s accepted. Here in the UK we don’t have gun ownership and I thank God for that. Someone commented below that the way to make this stop was tougher sentencing. I disagree, the way to make this stop is to remove the ability to own a gun in the first place.
Can you please tell us the officer’s name so we can thank him? Hia father wants to know
Life is short even when lived to the fullest. Eternity is forever. What a painful experience. Hold onto Jesus and share Him with as many as possible. There is nothing any can do about the pain this world brings, but we can give hope doran eternity in Heaven wher God says every tear will be wiped away! Share the Gospel, share God’s love, enjoy the special moments God gives you on this earth, they are a taste of Heaven that remind us to long for an eternity in God’s presence!!! Pray for and teach others to live for an eternity with Christ because eternity is so much longer then this life!! Thank you for caring for that boy, for loving him, his soul is what matters!! Our children knowing Christ is what matters!!! Thank you for protecting the unprotected!!! May God bless you sir!!!
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This is definitely heartbreaking. Cops are affected by their work just like anyone else is.
How sad that cowards shoot innocent babies, I pray God has no mercy for them!
Does it really matter what color skin this child had? The answer to that is no. It also don’t say what color skin the shooter was and does that matter no. All that matters is a innocent child of God has died. Everyone is put on this earth for a purpose. Color of skin is just a color it’s how God has made us. We all know the person who shot and killed this innocent child will pay the consequences sometime in there life. Perhaps not now but someday it will. Being human our minds are always thinking and hopefully the thought this person who killed this child has eats them alive because even people with evil souls have a hard time living and dealing with the guilt they have brought upon themself.
Very sad. Thank you for sharing and for your service.
That little, guy, straight-lined out of this wild world, has gone straight into a super beautiful place filled with peace loving beings, a place where there are no guns, a place where the sun never go down, a place where there are no hunger, pains and death and, a place where life is respected. And oficer, you and your partners did your best, don’t stop. Finally, my thoughts are with the family of this great little guy, who is now in heaven.
We will go have a secret meeting to get rid of all thugs/ abusers, mental people and anything that puts kids life in danger…. I’m tired of hearing about babies being abused/raped or killed cuz they wouldnt stop crying. But this baby boy is now safe and with God the one who put him on earth for a short time. R.I.P lil angel.
I can not for the life of me understand how so many of you have to make this political and make such negative comments….this is the LIFE or take the back, the DEATH of an innocent little boy that had not had but barely the chance to LIVE!! What can’t you get about that?!?! LIFE…he will NEVER be hugged by his Mom or Dad, or his Grandparents or siblings AGAIN!! Whomever shot this child deserves to be put away in the darkest of places! But by making the negative comments and being derogatory makes his death something it shouldn’t be!!!! As a parent and grandparent I find this deplorable! Please people….give this PRECIOUS LITTLE BOY the respect that he DESERVES…..for us to say a Prayer if that is your belief, if not a moment of silence or a positive thought for him and his family that have to be missing him terribly. I for one appreciate what the officers did for this precious little being and it’s too bad that they are the only ones to think to grab this little man up and get him where he needed to be. Too bad that some kind person that may have seen it happen didn’t grab him up and maybe saved his life! Just such a horrible tragedy! My sympathies to the little boys families and all that loved and knew him. Sweet blessings little man….you rest in the arms of Jesus now. ❤
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I couldn’t help but cry reading this. I just want to say Thank you for trying to save him even if you didn’t succeed. Something needs to be done to stop more innocent lives like this little boy’s being lost over senseless violence. As for the boy. I hope he finds peace in a world without violence and guns. Sometimes children are born so pure that they only need to be in this world for a short period of time yet they touch our lives and hearts in so many ways and make the world we live in a little better. I hope that no more children have to die in order for people to learn to love and forgive instead of hate and commit acts of violence.
I’m not going to read the comments. Most of them will just piss me off. Thank you to you and all the others that do what you do. I’m a nurse. Being a nurse takes some insanity but being a cop takes some major cojones. Thank you for putting yours on the chopping block every day.
Hug those babies and get some damn sleep! 😊
May God bless you & your job! I feel sad about the violence. I would just like to share this Bible verse which I read earlier: “…Be careful to follow all the commands of the Lord your God, that you may possess this good land & pass it on as an inheritance to your descendants forever.” (1 Chronicles 28:8)
I’m sorry that people have no respect for life. Children should grow up and outlive their parents. It has to be hard to be a police officer. I can’t imagine being in the position you’re in. The images that don’t die, scenes that you constantly relive in your head. I’ll pray for your sanity and protection from the streets that you serve and protect. I want to personally thank you for the job that you do. Keep doing what you are doing. There are more 5 year old boys that are living that need your protection. Keep your head up!
Peace and Blessings,
Africa Weems
Beautifully written. Thank you for sharing your heart.
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This so so sad I’m literally crying now …I have a 6 year old boy this could’ve been him!!! The killing needs to stop.Praying for his mom nd family
Sad story about a senseless death…I get so aggravated at all of the animosity and hate directed at police when they are there for us all in all kinds of situations. Sure, mistakes are made sometimes but in nearly all of the shootings where police were involved, the shooting victim brought it on themselves with violence toward the officers or others or showed contempt and disrespect for the badge. Live like you want to be treated and respect authority and likely you want have to deal with police. Act the fool and the police will find you.
Some of yall are worried about a so called prejudice comment.. When the main concern is that a poor little baby who never got to experience a full childhood because someone took this poor sweet innocent baby’s life away from him.. That’s what yall really need to be concerned about.. My thoughts and prayers are with the family of the sweet baby.. I am so sorry for yalls lose..